Oh odd. yeah the merge helped me but whenI did your fi I created a mess as it then downloaded the contacts that were doubled. lol! Take care. On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:11 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > it failed miserably for me. I had to turn off the contacts from the cloud, > fix the address book, back it up and then turn on the cloud connection for > contacts. > > On Jan 8, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Youcould merge them and see if that works. t select the doubled contact and > hit the merge key stroke which I believe is cmd vertical bar. then check to > see if it looks less messy. > > Take care. > On Jan 8, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Lena Contreras <contreras_lena@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi >> I have multiple contacts for the same people on my address book on my Mac. >> There are a few people that have only one contact card but mostly, there are >> two. I have no idea how this happened. The computer is synched to iCloud >> but when I check my iPhone, everything is normal. Any idea why this is >> happening? This is the second time I've had to go through and manually >> delete double contacts. Any way to have the computer sort through and >> delete double contacts? >> Thanks. >> Lena >> ************ >> >> >> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >> >> >> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >> their list subscription is: >> >> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >> >> The list archive is located at >> >> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >> >> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >> >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > Jonnie Appleseed > with his > Hands-On Technologeye(s) > touching the internet > Reducing technologys' disabilities > one byte at a time > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx