Try - Run the steps again Severin. Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB
> On 19 Oct 2017, at 6:00 pm, Severin Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting Ronni. After several passes it says there are no more > duplicates but in fact it is now down to two of each card! > Severin > ____________________________________________________ > > Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia > ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > Mob 0484 624 741 mail to: [email protected] > ____________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > >> On 19 Oct 2017, at 17:41, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Severin, >> >> Using you Mac is the most efficient approach and there’s a handy tool >> built-in with macOS. >> NB: Don’t forget to make sure you’ve got a copy of your contacts backed up >> somewhere before making changes. >> >> 1. Start by launching the Contacts application. >> 2. Make sure All Contacts is selected in the top left corner of the window >> (this will include local and cloud stored contact cards). >> >> 3. In the menu bar click on Card → Look for Duplicates… >> >> 4. Next, a pop up window will let you know how many duplicates will be >> merged if there is different information on cards that share the same name >> and also if some duplicates will just be removed (this is automatic and in >> this example all the duplicates are being cleaned up by merging). >> >> 5. Click Merge and you’re done! >> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM >> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> >> macOS High Sierra 10.13 >> >>> On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:23 pm, Severin Crisp <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I have 3 iOS devices and 2 OSX (High Sierra) desktops and all share the >>> address book. Following some recent family messaging mixups due to >>> sharing information on single cards rather than having separate cards >>> (this is historical) I set about a clean up doing my operations on one or >>> other of the two OSX machines. This has proceeded fine apart from the fact >>> that on my MacAir I now have four copies of each card. I have not a clue >>> why! The “master” information held in the cloud is fine. I suspect the >>> way is to reinstall OSX, maybe from the Recovery sector. >>> All advice welcome >>> Severin Crisp - in quadruplicate >>> ____________________________________________________ >>> >>> Assoc Prof R Severin Crisp, FAIP, FIP, CPhys >>> 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia >>> ph (08) 9842 1950 ( Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) >>> Mob 0484 624 741 mail to: [email protected] >>> ____________________________________________________
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
