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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15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia
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> On 19 Oct 2017, at 17:41, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> 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
>
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>
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>
>> On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:23 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au
>> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> 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
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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
>> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>
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