Hi, 

Thanks for your help.  I thought I had this mastered but I guess I haven’t.


Mary Jo Partyka
[email protected]


> On Jan 4, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In Contacts, there's a list of all groups on the left. Selecting one (you 
> don't need to interact with the table, just up/down arrow on it) will cause 
> the list of contacts being displayed to be limited to just that group, and 
> the search box to only search that group. To add a contact, just find it, 
> copy it with cmd-c, find the group you want it in, and paste with cmd-v. To 
> remove a contact, find it and hit delete. A popup will appear, asking if you 
> want to remove the contact form its current group, or erase it entirely.
>> On Jan 4, 2015, at 12:59 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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] 
>> <mailto:[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)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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