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

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

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,

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

Address Book/Contacts mayhem

2017-10-19 Thread Severin Crisp
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