Hi, Regarding contacts, I can help. For Skype, I’ll leave that to another.
The purpose for having so many contact categories has to do with how many accounts you might have on your Mac or device. So, if you have an iCloud account, a Google account, a work account and maybe a personal ISP account, then you would possibly have four different accounts with contact cards. Some people prefer to keep contacts separate, others like them consolidated, or somewhere in between. So, All Contacts would display cards from all accounts,, All iCloud would display cards from just the iCloud account and so on. When in the Mail app, you actually have access to any of the active accounts, so it is possible to send a message from your work account to a contact in your iCloud account, and vice-versa. When cleaning things up within the Contacts app, there are two menu items that you might like to be aware of. Under the Cards menu, there is a “Look for Duplicates” and a “Merge Selected Cards” item. If you look for duplicates first, then select the duplicate cards, you can then merge the two or three cards into one. So, for example, if you had two cards related to me, they would show up as duplicates in the “Look for Duplicates” search. You could then select them both and then “Merge Selected Cards” and the MacOS would make those two cards into one. If there were two matchng phone numbers with the same label, they should also be merged into one. If iCloud is your main contact repository, then I’d have the new contact be placed into this account. You can set this up in Preferences on the Mac, or Settings on iOS/iPadOS. In Preferences on the Mac, the default for new cards is in the General pane. In Settings on iOS/iPadOS, this is set on the main page of the Contacts settings. I use iCloud for my main repository myself, so I have the default set to iCloud on both my iOS/iPadOS devices and my Macs. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Apr 23, 2020, at 10:00 AM, 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello. > > For the last couple of hours I have spent tidying my contact cards up on my > Mac. > > I discovered if I went in to the table of where you could select all contacts > or all iCloud contacts on the Mac, I had so many duplication and old > contacts that meant nothing to me. I even found old contacts of numbers > that I had under my own contact card. > > So I’d like to know if I were to put a new contact card in to my I phone or > iMac, what column should I choose such as iCloud contacts, or all contacts or > All ICloud contacts? Why would Apple have all these columns in such a table > please? > > My second question is concerning Skype on the Mac. > > How should I answer incoming Skype calls and how to end the calls using the > Mac please? Skype on the Mac has got better. I need to use Skype next week > to have a job interview. > > I also would like to share with you that I have a possible temporary job > offer to do with CV19 as that was really unexpected under the present > circumstances. So if you want a job and you are VI, if you think you can do > a particular job, go for it and sell yourself as I am sure there will be new > opportunities for us to shine. > > Kawal. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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