Despite a restart Search for Duplicates still comes up with “No Duplicates”
despite each card having a duplicate
Severin
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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)
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> On 19 Oct 2017, at 18:37, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Try - Run the steps again Severin.
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> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB
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> On 19 Oct 2017, at 6:00 pm, Severin Crisp <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>
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>>> On 19 Oct 2017, at 17:41, Ronni Brown <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>> 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]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>>>> 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]
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>>>> ____________________________________________________
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