Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Contacts Full of Unknowns Date: 13 Dec 2016 00:16:01 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <121220161903093920%star@sky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tCm2h/h1XVQGNS+7Kc0pgghuOAcj2jqUYXBv0oHcTjr7DIJk9/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:82cPmwqEKQkGD8wKohz+vnBWczw= sha1:x7wGKa3BbTLOn+eurCYI9ompd/4= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.2.1 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:97812 Davoud wrote: > Contacts shared and sync'd among six Macs and numerous iThingies via > iCloud. Latest OSX and iOS. > > I'm going through my contacts to ensure my Xmas card list is complete > and ready to print labels. Under "All contacts" I'm finding dozens and > dozens of persons whose names are unrecognized by either my wife or me. > Many of them have multiple instances, for a total of some hundreds of > entries that have to be manually removed. Any idea how these are > getting there? I'm not in the habit of accidentally clicking such > things as "add to contacts" and if I did I don't think I would do it up > to 8 or 10 times for some persons. Perhaps you configured Facebook on a Mac and it pulled those contacts from your friends list. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR