Showing posts with label Contacts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contacts. Show all posts
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Sending multiple Contacts to an iOS user from iCloud Contacts

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Found this works Select multiple in iCloud Click gear bottom left to export VCF Email VCF to iOS device Click on attachment - get optio...
Saturday, December 02, 2017

Spotlight bugs in iOS 11.2: Empty contact on search.

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I think the spotlight/contact bug was introduced in 11.1. It’s not fixed in 11.2. If I search in spotlight for a Contact name, or search on...
Sunday, September 03, 2017

Annals of iOS inconsistency: Contacts vs Notes vs Reminders - backup and sharing

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https://www.icloud.com/#settings  currently shows an “Advanced” subsection for restoring Contacts. It provides options to restore an iCloud ...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Migrate Contacts from Outlook/Exchange server to OS X Contacts

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I last wrote about migrating contacts from Outlook/Exchange server to OS X in 2011 . Back then one of the issues with migration then was th...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Mavericks bug: enabling iCloud Keychain duplicates Contacts if use .me domain

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This is a truly weird bug. If I enabled iCloud Keychain sync in Mavericks all of my Contacts would duplicate. One set would show up with t...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

How I moved my daughters iOS Notes from school to personal iCloud account

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Please don’t put data into iOS Notes. Really, it’s quite horrid [1] If you do you may find it’s stuck there. We ran into this when my daugh...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Force Chrome to remember iCloud password - how I ended up with LastPass

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I don’t use iCloud for much - Apple’s cloud functionality is almost as lacking as its reliability. Our family has used Google Calendar for 7...
Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Contaqs.app - A contacts.app replacement - with a flaw since fixed

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I have about 2,200 Contacts, and if they could speak they'd all complain about iOS Contacts.app. The bizarre Groups implementation, the ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Apple's iCloud control panel enables iCloud Contacts within corporate Outlook

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iCloud support is limited to relatively new Macs able to at least run Lion. Practically speaking, Mountain Lion. Apple is kinder to the Wi...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Pre-Lion Macs: Go iCloud or Google?

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It's been a while since I reviewed the PIM world  [1], but a post on CardDav sync between MacOS Mountain Lion (10.8) and Google Contacts...

Google Contact Sync on Mountain Lion and iOS - CardDAV (Project Contacts 2013)

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I'm rather late to this party [6], but around the time Google ended ActiveSync support for unpaid accounts [1] they added vCard  3 (199...
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Removing 3500+ iCloud Contacts with no content (No Name) and Contacts.app use of 25GB of virtual memory

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I suspect many people's iOS Contacts have been trashed by iCloud, but only a small percentage realize how bad things are. It may explain...
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Saturday, November 17, 2012

iCloud transition - Contacts take 2

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Four months ago, when MobileMe was turned off,  an attempt to move my OS X Lion Contacts to iCloud transition was a first class debacle . I ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

An AppleScript to prevent the iCloud CRLF bug - normalize line endings

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Yesterday I wrote perhaps the fifth AppleScript of my life, and I purged an iCloud paralyzing cloud of "Groups" created as a side...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

iCloud group replication resolved by AppleScript

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It's been a month since my disastrous MobileMe to iCloud migration . Over the course of a week I figured out a convoluted solution for i...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Hotel iCloud

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"… Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California ...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Notes on converting a MacBook Core 2 Duo dual USB to Lion

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Our vintage 2006 MacBook Core 2 Duo can, in theory, run Lion [1]. I just upgraded it from Snow Leopard, which it ran reasonably well albeit...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

iOS Restore problems: App Sync failure and missing Google Contacts

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Fresh off  discovering iOS Restore problems with In-App purchases and video podcasts  I was called in to help a friend transition from two 3...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

MobileMe to iCloud - Is Apple getting nervous?

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Apple's MobileMe service officially ends on June 30th, almost 8 weeks from now. When it ends we either need to go to iCloud or give up o...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Migrating MobileMe family accounts to iCloud

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I've started migrating family accounts to iCloud. This explanation from Apple Discussions is helpful ... With a Family Pack, the master...