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Q: "My Card" - Contacts Refuses to Change it Even Thought It Looks Like It Changed

In Yosemite, I'm having a problem where Contacts thinks the wrong Contact Card is "My Card."  In local and iCloud contacts, the silhouette appears next to the card I have marked as "Make This My Card."  However, if I use the Contacts "Go to My Card" function it always takes me to another Contact card (my daughter's).

 

I have attempted to fix the problem by marking other cards as "Make this My Card."  The silhouette indicating "my card" will always move to the new card, but if I use the "Go to My Card" function it will always jump to my daughter's card.

 

The main problem is this also goofs up Safari, because it attempts to use her Contact card to autofill webpages.  I've tried disabling and re-enabling Autofill and changing the card from within Safari's preferences, but that does not work.  As an additional datapoint, if I use Safari's preferences to attempt to change it, it will open my daughter's card in editing mode.

 

This is really annoying and started about 2 months after Yosemite was installed.

MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Jan 15, 2015 2:59 PM

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Q: "My Card" - Contacts Refuses to Change it Even Thought It Looks Like It Changed

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  • by MacMAML,

    MacMAML MacMAML Jan 15, 2015 3:47 PM in response to MacMAML
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    Jan 15, 2015 3:47 PM in response to MacMAML

    Well, after trying many things, I found a solution that worked for me.  In Contacts->Preferences->General, the default account was set to "on my mac"--which was ironic, because the only contact in it was my card and "Apple Inc."  By changing the default account to iCloud, it seemed to fix the problem.

  • by tomlongrpv,

    tomlongrpv tomlongrpv Sep 21, 2016 3:39 PM in response to MacMAML
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    Sep 21, 2016 3:39 PM in response to MacMAML

    I had the same problem.  It somehow changed my card to another person and even though I edited the contents and deleted the other person it displayed as the other person.  Of course the other person did not show in searches of the data.  Astounding.  But I have still lost my ability to have the thumbnail pictures in contacts jump out to full size.  And I now must keep all my contacts on I could as a default.