Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
HELP
Many of the contacts on my Mac have only some of the data listed (mostly name and group) but phones, addresses, notes, etc. are missing. The data on iCloud and my iPhone is all intact.
The number of contacts on my Mac and iCloud are identical.
I am unable to sync the complete data to the Mac and I have tried many of the methods suggested in the discusion groups.
Please HELP.
Shuka
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Shuka wrote:
Hi Linc:
Thanks for clearing this up.
I'm not Linc.
But I'm glad this did it for you 🙂
Smart Groups are not groups, they are searches and are device specific, the situation you decribe is normal, smart groups don't replicate on other devices but regular groups do.
Hello Ssound1,
Sorry about the mixup.
Regarding the iCloud becoming the "source" of data I think Apple should have atleast warn the user when he first decides to use iCloud after many years of using the Mac as the source of truth.
As to the smart groups, although I understand your explanation I think smartgroups should have at least worked on the same Mac that Contacts and Mail reside on and are launched from. Good iseas come sometimes from users😁
Thanks again,
Joshua
I agree that the server should support Smart Group Rules, but currently it does not so I live with it.
Don't be fooled by apparent similarities between Mobile Me (the old way) and iCloud, they are very different, treating iCloud as you would have treated MM will lead to problems, and confusion.
Thanks again, I realy never undestood how mobile me worked.
Joshua
Shuka wrote:
Thanks again, I realy never undestood how mobile me worked.
Joshua
Join the club 🙂
contacts on my Mac contain only part of the data I have on iCloud and the iPhone
