I have noticed that most of my Contacts appear to be duplicated when I list All Contacts on my Mac. This is a nuisance in email.
I was checking and when I look at All iCloud I have 221 Contacts.
When I look at All iCloud I have 221 Contacts.
When I look at All Contacts I have 409 Contacts.
Further investigation shows that a few, which only appear once, have a cards attribute with On My Mac and iCloud.
How can I merge these duplicates. The Card Look for Duplicates finds none.
If I manually select a pair duplicates I can Link Selected Cards but it appears I would need to repeat this ~200 times.
Is there a simpler way to automate the process?
EDIT
The Contacts are synched through iCloud to my phone and iPad, and there are no duplicates.
Most of these originated on a Windows XP machine, and "transferred" via a variety of tools to a MacBook in 2011. Since then they have been through a variety of steps, as apple introduced iCloud, and I changed AppleID and moved between computers.
I fundamentally mistrust cloud storage (indeed in much of Australia there is no internet access), but there is probably no need to keep a copy On My Mac, so the simplest solution to my problem may be to just delete all On My Mac and use iCloud.
