Well, first you need to decide if you want to keep your contacts from now on in Google or in iCloud.
In either case, I think the easiest thing to do if you have a Macintosh is to 1. Go to All my Google contacts 2. Select all the contacts you want to migrate from the contact list. Unless you pic all, this can get confusing and might need a seperate message to the list. 3. Go into the file menu and click export menu item . This should ask you for where you want to save your contact list. 4. Go into the System Preferences App and Select Internet Accounts. 5. Find and select the Google account in the account table. 6. There is a table below this that lists services you get from Google. Each one has a check box. Uncheck the contacts. Now you will not be getting Google contacts on your computer. At this point you can go back to the contacts app and import the contacts you exported above. There is a import menu item and it should allow you to select the file you saved in step . 3. It also might be useful for folks to save their contacts using file export on a semi regular basis just in case you or the contact provider somehow messes up, in which case you can still find Aunt Mabel's address locally HTH Jonathan . On 27 September 2017 at 15:41, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: > Dear Jonathan, > > Please seee my questions below underneath your responses. > > On 27 Sep 2017, at 18:50, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would just select one cloud source and use that. > > How would I go about choosing just one cloud source? I'm so ignorant > Jonathan, I can't quite understand how it works or where I'd choose such a > source. If you had the time, would you direct me to an article or some > other simple source so that I'd understand how these things work? I've > been through "Contacts" preferences but couldn't see anything that would > help. Should I stop (uncheck) sinking my contacts to Google account that I > also have and just leave the syncing to iCloud account? > And how would I migrate or combine my google contacts with icloud contacts? > > Many thanks > > Andrew > > If you don't use iCloud web interface but you do use googles web > interfaces then I suggest you migrate all your contacts over to Google and > then remove iCloud contacts from your Apple devices. Otherwise, you will > find that you never quite have the right information. Generally, for > iPhone / Macintosh contacts applications the all contact information is > primarily sourced in the cloud (iCloud, Google Exchange or LinkedIn) These > systems all have was pf informing your devices anytime something has > changed in their master copy. Then the Contacts app will replace the copy > stored in the computer. > > Several years ago, the Mac or perhaps a plugin I had on my windows phone > tried to do things like you describe and my systems ended up eating large > amounts of time and battery copying updates from Exchange to device to > phone to computer to exchange and back again. Modern technologies keep the > master in a server and then download updates as necessary, this works for > calendars with CalDav and Mail with IMAP. > > On 26 September 2017 at 08:53, Andrew Lamanche <ioani...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi Listers, >> >> I have a bit of a problem with the way my contacts sync. I have two >> accounts: icloud and google. Both have cync enabled. I have just noticed >> that some cards in my contacts on my mac say "all icloud" and others say" >> all google". How can I make sure that individual contacts are present in >> both accounts. 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