Seeking Apple App to Merge Deduplicate Manage Too Many Contacts
Sunday, 25 March 2018 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kI've delayed tidying my Address Book/Contacts info way too long. I sync my Contacts between macOS High Sierra and an iPhone and iPad running iOS 11 using iCloud. Somehow I also have almost all these contacts "On My Mac" as well, but I don't want them there. Because my contacts are very private info, I don't want to use an online service like Scrubly.
Either a Mac or iPad app would fit the bill. While many inexpensive utilities appear on both App Stores, ease-of-use is much more important than low price. I seek recommendations from folks with direct experience of the task and the software.
My ideal software would prune complete duplicates, offer partial matches for my merge decisions (highlighting the more-recent data) and create a clean dataset. Then I could delete all my Contacts, import this clean dataset and be more careful in the future
Either a Mac or iPad app would fit the bill. While many inexpensive utilities appear on both App Stores, ease-of-use is much more important than low price. I seek recommendations from folks with direct experience of the task and the software.
My ideal software would prune complete duplicates, offer partial matches for my merge decisions (highlighting the more-recent data) and create a clean dataset. Then I could delete all my Contacts, import this clean dataset and be more careful in the future