Hi, I wouldn't hit the merge. What will happen is your iPhone will merge the contacts in iCloud with the ones you have on the iPhone. It does actually create duplicates, it just doesn't look like it because they've been merged on the iPhone. You would notice the duplicates within AddressBook on your Mac if it is synced to iCloud. Even though you removed the iCloud account from your Touch, the Contacts still reside in the Cloud. My suggestion here is to, initially, leave the iPhone out of the picture since it has the Contacts the way you want them. I'm assuming here that everything on your iPhone is more or less perfect, if it's not, then you may wish to modify my instructions. The easiest thing to do, in my opinion, would be to first check the entries in iCloud in the AddressBook of your Mac. Of course, this is only practical if you've synced your Mac with iCloud as well.
1. In the Groups Table, select "All iCloud". 2. Navigate to the Names Table and review the list of entries. 3. If they all seem like they're the same as the ones on the iPhone, then remove them all from iCloud. 4. To do this, press cmd-a (Select All) then press the Delete key. All iCloud Contacts should now be gone. All local contacts on your Mac should still be there if you had any. Now you can Quit AddressBook on the Mac. Go ahead and add your iPhone to iCloud now. All Contacts from the iPhone will be transported to iCloud without creating duplicates. If you wish the exact collection of contacts on your iPod Touch, then delete all the local contacts before you add it to iCloud. The beauty about this scenario now is if you change any contact info on the iPhone, it is automatically changed on your Touch and on your Mac. In fact, if you change any iCloud linked info, it will automatically change on any other iCloud synced device. the trick here is to make sure it is perfect on one of your iCloud synced devices, move it's contact data to iCloud, then sync the other devices. I find it easiest to actually do this on my Mac as it is easier to edit AddressBook cards on the Mac rather than on an iDevice. The drawback though is that any assigned Ring-tones are lost as AddressBook doesn't retain that info. Sorry, I think I may be rambling a bit. Hopefully, my explanation is somewhat clear. Later... On 2012-02-21, at 7:32 PM, craig J Dunlop wrote: > I need some iCloud help!on a iPod touch I removed the iCloud account. because > some how we ended up with multiple entrees in the contacts list.and I didn't > want all of that showing up on the iPhone. now when I check contacts the > iCloud settings of the iPhone it said all contacts will be merged. we don't > want the old contacts on the iPhone since we have it the way she wants them > and we just want to back them up to the cloud. is it safe to hit the merge > ore will it make a big mess of everything? > I can't seem to find any info about this. thanks for any help. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
