Contacts & Notes Help

Cougurr

Well-Known Member
An unexpected Christmas Present arrived. My Contacts appeared with a full compliment of duplicates as did my Notes. Yes I use iCloud for both between my multiple devices. They are just THERE! So I tackled the Contacts first and used the find duplicates option on my M1 iMac and made short work of this with the merging option, then spent some long over-due time to cleanup the original list. HOWEVER my Group file on the left still remains duplicated as shown in the attached photo. I followed the normal method of selecting one of them and pressing the delete button. The computer gives a tone and nothing happens. Apple site ays may be related to any one of the entries being a Smart Group item. Nothing gives me the option to find and change its rules. Also the Smart Group heading at the bottom shows "Last Import" and is the same total list as the All Contacts. So this maybe why I cannot remove them! ??

Yes dealing with all the duplicated notes is yet to begin as that App does not seem to have a simple way to find duplicates like Contacts ! (or does it?????)

Does anyone have any suggested way to remove DUPLICATED items from a Group List?
Thanks-Colin
Screen Shot 2022-12-27 at 4.35.38 PM.png
 

chas_m

Well-Known Member
This usually is caused by trying to use both iCloud sync AND tethered-to-Mac sync.

IIRC, the fix involves signing in to iCloud.com by visiting the site using a web browser, then clearing out duplicates there.
 
Top