> On Jan 22, 2018, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Macs R We <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> This is just my experience, but when your Cloud account gets constipated, 
> signing out and signing back in (sometimes with a reboot in the middle) is 
> the only thing that will fix it in maybe 90% of the cases.  And yeah, this 
> causes duplicated junk, but it's the price you pay for using Apple's buggy 
> cloud service.
> 
> That makes sense. If I export and re-import, though, I'll lose my "groups" 
> right?

If you export AS AN ARCHIVE, your groups are preserved but the import will only 
replace, not merge.  If you export as a group vCard, you can merge, but you 
won't preserve your groups.  In your case, the first option luckily happens to 
do what you want.

> If you're worried about duplications in Contacts, just export your contacts 
> as an "archive" before signing out of iCloud.  When you re-import them, it 
> will inform you that it is replacing al previous contents.  This is often a 
> good way to defeat the duplication demon.
> 
> Me, I avoid the cloud like the plague, because between these problems and 
> privacy implications, I just don't find it worth it.
> 
> Do you use something else for contact sync? What? Id love an alternative….

iTunes and a lightning cable.  For backups, too.  It was good enough for my 
grandaddy, and it's good enough for me.  :-)

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