I have got myself in a bit of a mess with addresses in the Apple address book.
I was syncing with gmail, which was giving me many duplicates, but have changed to using iCloud.
This, for whatever the reason, has given me a no duplicates copy on my iPad, iPhone, and Macbook Air, but I still have remnant duplicate/triplicate addresses on my Mac Mini. Checking for duplicates and merging them doesn't find any duplicates, even though they are there.
The problem is I don't know which of these adresses are the ones on iCloud and which ones are spurious.
If I archived the address book from the Air (which has no duplicates), and then deleted all the address from the Mini, then imported the archive into the adress book on the Mini, do you think this would fix it.
However, its further confounded by Postbox, which although set up to use the Apple address book, it seems to contain dozens of versions of the same address. So I'm not sure what is happening there.
However, is there any reason not to try the archive/delete/restore approach.
Thanks,
Graham
I was syncing with gmail, which was giving me many duplicates, but have changed to using iCloud.
This, for whatever the reason, has given me a no duplicates copy on my iPad, iPhone, and Macbook Air, but I still have remnant duplicate/triplicate addresses on my Mac Mini. Checking for duplicates and merging them doesn't find any duplicates, even though they are there.
The problem is I don't know which of these adresses are the ones on iCloud and which ones are spurious.
If I archived the address book from the Air (which has no duplicates), and then deleted all the address from the Mini, then imported the archive into the adress book on the Mini, do you think this would fix it.
However, its further confounded by Postbox, which although set up to use the Apple address book, it seems to contain dozens of versions of the same address. So I'm not sure what is happening there.
However, is there any reason not to try the archive/delete/restore approach.
Thanks,
Graham