I find groups to be rather confusing - not the concept but the practical setup - but I admit I haven't yet concentrated on this a lot. As for duplications, I've had this problem almost from the beginning of having an iOS device along with my Mac. At one point I was able to straighten it out but I have more than one device now and the problem came back. So I finally decided just to make sure I had a backup of all contacts that I could access without the contacts app and then I just plain deleted all my contacts from all devices and computers and stopped that service with iCloud. Now I'm re-entering everything on my computer and it's a pain but it's going to be worth it because of all the duplicates and old info and partial info I'm getting rid of. When this is done i will need to learn to monitor what is happening and catch it before it gets to this point again.
What I decided to do with email lists that I am subscribed to is put a name for the list as the first name and "email list" without the quotes as the last name. Then all my email lists should end up together under "e". -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 3, 2015, at 11:46 PM, Mary Jo Partyka <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Cheryl, It’s interesting that you posted aobut having problems with Contacts since I am also having problems. I was able to put a few groups together on the Mac but because I haven’t done much with it in the past few months, I feel like I’m back to square one now. I was able to send a required message to one of my groups but had some difficulty putting new people in that group and now I can’t even find the group. Is there an easy way to go between group lists and contact information etc? I have been pressing vo command t and going into each of the tables and that seems to work some of the time. But it feels like the most unorganized ap on the computer. I also have duplications. Any suggestions would be helpful. Mary Jo Partyka [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Jan 3, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I finally got fed up with all the chaos with contacts on phone, iPad and > computer, with lots of duplicates and outdated information still being mixed > with the new. I felt this was way beyond the help of just merging contacts or > deleting and adding indivicual ones as I've been trying to ignore this > problem for quite a while. After careful backing up of all my contact > information, I deleted contacts for all accounts on all devices and deleted > all contacts in the application on my computer. So now I'm choosing the > contacts I really want to keep and am adding all the information back on my > computer first. Then I'll turn contacts back on in all accounts on devices. > > The one thing I am not sure of is what to do about email lists when putting > the information in Contacts on my computer. There are fields for first and > last name and company and a checkbox for company but an email list doesn't > quite fit either of these choices. I hesitate to put macvisionaries, for > example, in as a first or last name or a company but don't know if I should > just put the email address in without a name iname; I'm pretty sure this will > disorganize things. Is there an accepted protocol I should follow for this? > > Thanks for any help with this. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
