I have a set of contacts on Gmail, which I am trying to abandon. I have created an export of those contacts as CSV records, in case I need them later.
On my iPad 1, I see a set of contacts that looks like the one on my iMac. It seems that my iMac is already syncing contacts with my iCloud account. If I look at my iCloud prefs on the iMac, they do show a checkmark by Contacts. (Contrary to what I said before when I asked how to start the syncing!)
On my iPod Touch, (IOS 6) I have taken the contacts app out of the Unitlties folder. When I open it, I see the same contacts as I saw on my iPad, and when I tap Groups, I see a set labeled iCloud and another set labeled From My Mac. All have checkmarks.
When I tap Done and go back to All Contacts, I cannot see any of the few groups I had set up on my iMac. If I go back to Groups on the iPod, and tap on a group, all that happens is that the checkmark disappears; I do not see the several addresses that are supposed to be the constituents of that group.
Again, thanks very much for your help.