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 <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au> ____________________________________________________ > On 19 Oct 2017, at 18:37, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > 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 <sevcr...@westnet.com.au > <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au>> 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: sevcr...@westnet.com.au >> <mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au> >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 19 Oct 2017, at 17:41, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com >>> <mailto: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 >>> >>> 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 <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 >>>> ____________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> 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> >>>> ____________________________________________________ > -- 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>
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