Re: Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Severin Crisp 
Despite a restart Search for Duplicates still comes up with “No Duplicates” 
despite each card having a duplicate
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: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 












> On 19 Oct 2017, at 18:37, Ronda Brown  wrote:
> 
> 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  > 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
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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: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
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>>> On 19 Oct 2017, at 17:41, Ronni Brown >> > 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 > 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: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
 
 
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Re: Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Peter Crisp 
Hi Ronni, thanks for this tip, I had 71 duplicates in the first pass before I 
did the Merge using the MBP. Following this I had a quick scan of the Contacts 
on my iPhone and noticed a duplicate there. I went back to the MBP and searched 
for that name and only there once. The name happens to be my boss (not the wife 
one but the other one at my work!!). I waited a while to see if it would 
resolve and still the duplication remains there after 10 minutes on the iPhone. 
My work uses Exchange server and the credentials in the work contact contains 
all the work related credentials for my boss, pager number, program details 
etc. On my iPhone I have in Settings>Contacts>Default Account set as iCloud and 
has been like that for ages though at some time in the past I think it was set 
as “XXX” - my work Contacts account. Is this just a time delay before the merge 
will truly merge across all linked devices or will this duplication remain 
forever - unless I do something else?

I re-ran the Look for duplicates process a second time and 5 were found. A 
third time and none found.

Regards

Pete.



> On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:41 pm, Ronni Brown  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 > > 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: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
>> 
>> 
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Re: Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Severin Crisp 
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: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 












> On 19 Oct 2017, at 17:41, Ronni Brown  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 > > 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: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
>> 
>> 
> 
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Re: Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Ronni Brown 
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  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: sevcr...@westnet.com.au 
> 
> 



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