Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-02-01 Thread E.T.
Life is good now, thanks so much Tim. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/1/2017 8:05 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, To get around this, I'd go into Settings, iCloud and turn off Contacts. Your iPhone will ask if you

Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-02-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, To get around this, I'd go into Settings, iCloud and turn off Contacts. Your iPhone will ask if you want to keep a copy locally on your iPhone or to delete them. Normally, I tell it to delete them so I don't get duplicates etc, but in your case, I'd tell it to keep them locally on your iP

Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-02-01 Thread E.T.
Hi Tim, One problem I have discovered is that some of my contacts are not in iCloud but in the the iPhone contacts. So far I have not found a way to transfer them back into iCloud. I could enter them again as new contacts but I do not know how many there are yet. Is there a way to transfer t

Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-01-31 Thread E.T.
Thanks Tim. It all came together after having coffee and some work. It all looks good now. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . I have seen the truth and it makes no sense. E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 1/31/2017 10:56 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, The CardDAV listed is simply an indication of

Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-01-31 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The CardDAV listed is simply an indication of the protocol that is being used for that specific account. The Apple Contacts app uses the cardDAV protocol and Google along with other services allows for syncing with Apple devices using the CardDAV protocol. So, if you have a list of contac

Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-01-30 Thread E.T.
Tim and all, I started working on this and have some questions. First, I found most of my contacts on the iPhone had been linked. Hopw did that happen? A change that came in iOS 10? On the Mac, disabled sync in all accounts. While there, I noticed in the Mac's Contacts preferences. each

Re: Contacts in Sierra

2017-01-30 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes, that would work just fine. Just make sure that you turn off iCloud syncing for Contacts in System Prefs first before doing any wiping, otherwise, you'll lose it all. Also, when it asks if you want to keep a copy of your contacts on your Mac, say "No". This should help to make sure t

Contacts in Sierra

2017-01-29 Thread E.T.
I may not have looked at Contacts since installing Sierra so not sure when things went south. I found duplicates so used the look for duplicates function. In the On My Mac section, all the groups are doubled. So before I do any more on the Mac, I will look at the contacts on my iPho