How can I move "on my mac" Contacts to my iCloud ID

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How can I move "on my mac" Contacts to my iCloud ID

A well intentioned clerk at Apple Store was trying to help, made the assumption that my icloud email was my iCloud ID on a new device. So I wound up with two iCloud IDs. The only way to fix was to turn the undesired id off in System Preferences. When you do that, it asks if you want to back the contacs up to your mac and, since I didn't want to lost them, I said yes. Now, I have two identities in Contacts under All My Contacts: Apple ID and On my Mac. I want to move the On my Mac contacts to my Apple ID. I can't drag and drop them as a group. How can I do it?

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), 27" 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5

Posted on Jun 13, 2018 10:18 AM

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Jun 13, 2018 3:06 PM in response to Van-D

As posted by 'Winston Churchill' in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3645725?answerId=17264939022#17264939022

Assuming you have already enabled contact syncing as per the reply hereinbefore:

Go to users and groups and choose only your On My Mac Contacts to display.

Ensure that nothing is typed in the search field.

Click to select the first contact and shift-click the last to select them all.

Drag the list of contacts to your desktop.

Delete the contacts from Address Book (using your delete key).

Make sure your iCloud account is your default account (preferences > general).

Select All iCloud contacts from users and groups.

Drag the file you previously dragged to your desktop back onto Address Book ('Contacts').

You might want to back up all your contacts before you begin.

Select All contacts in users and groups

Click to select the first contact and shift-click the last to select them all.

Drag the list of contacts to your desktop.

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