Re: broken contact sync
Macs R We <[email protected]>
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> On Jan 22, 2018, at 5:02 PM, Jeff Weinberger <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Macs R We <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > This is just my experience, but when your Cloud account gets constipated, signing out and signing back in (sometimes with a reboot in the middle) is the only thing that will fix it in maybe 90% of the cases. And yeah, this causes duplicated junk, but it's the price you pay for using Apple's buggy cloud service. > > That makes sense. If I export and re-import, though, I'll lose my "groups" right? If you export AS AN ARCHIVE, your groups are preserved but the import will only replace, not merge. If you export as a group vCard, you can merge, but you won't preserve your groups. In your case, the first option luckily happens to do what you want. > If you're worried about duplications in Contacts, just export your contacts as an "archive" before signing out of iCloud. When you re-import them, it will inform you that it is replacing al previous contents. This is often a good way to defeat the duplication demon. > > Me, I avoid the cloud like the plague, because between these problems and privacy implications, I just don't find it worth it. > > Do you use something else for contact sync? What? Id love an alternative…. iTunes and a lightning cable. For backups, too. It was good enough for my grandaddy, and it's good enough for me. :-) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk