{"id":16830,"date":"2017-01-06T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16830"},"modified":"2017-01-06T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T21:00:55","slug":"bitter-icloud-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/06\/bitter-icloud-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter iCloud Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitsplitting.org\/2017\/01\/03\/bitter-icloud-truth\/\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/bitsplitting.org\/2017\/01\/03\/bitter-icloud-truth\/\">\n<p>The first thing to do was obviously to take care of those duplicates. Contacts on the Mac features a couple seemingly handy menu items for dealing with this problem: &ldquo;Look for Duplicates&rdquo; and &ldquo;Merge Selected Cards.&rdquo; I cannot recommend using either of these features.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After painstakingly merging cards in this manner for an hour or so (!), I had stopped paying close attention to whether conflicting data was being persisted well or not. At one point I stumbled upon the realization that I lacked the phone number for a contact whom I had sent an SMS message just within the past week. Other contacts were missing key data, too. An outdated email address here, a missing mailing address there. Whoops! Abort mission! Time to recover from that backup file.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I began to panic. Had I actually lost all of my Contacts data? In spite of dutifully backing up my local data <em>and making a proactive archive from Contacts<\/em>, the app had a very different idea of what my Contacts &ldquo;truth&rdquo; was.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On my Mac, the archive does seem to contain the data from iCloud, but I don&rsquo;t dare to try restoring from it. It&rsquo;s not clear to me what I would lose by creating a local vCard export instead of a Contacts Archive.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut: The first thing to do was obviously to take care of those duplicates. Contacts on the Mac features a couple seemingly handy menu items for dealing with this problem: &ldquo;Look for Duplicates&rdquo; and &ldquo;Merge Selected Cards.&rdquo; I cannot recommend using either of these features. [&#8230;] After painstakingly merging cards in this manner for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,381,176,16,30,1381,269],"class_list":["post-16830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-carddav","tag-contacts","tag-icloud","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-12","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16834,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16830\/revisions\/16834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}