My boss has a MacBook Air and an iPhone, and pays for iCloud. We also use Outlook here. We discovered that her contacts weren't being synced properly between her phone and Contacts.app, and attempted to merge them. What we've discovered instead is that we've somehow created inexact duplicates, with the duplicates containing vCard flags marking what kind of data each contact is using:
I don't recall exactly what we did to achieve this – I assume we imported some vCards and hoped that iCloud would sort through the duplicates – but is there any way to erase these contacts without manually stepping through, and has anyone seen this before and can advise how to stop this happening in the future?
Best Answer
Run a search for data that would show up in a corrupt vCard, but not a legitimate one. For example: "
type=VOICE". You may have to do this several times with different strings. I would take the results and export them before selecting all (⌘ A) and deleting them. Make sure you can always undo, if needed.