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No luck with this one. Setup screen did not appear at initiation, so nothing could be done. Help is no help, as no one is there. Apps that start out this janky go straight in the trash.
You might explain what is lacking for you in the macOS Contacts app to get better suggestions.
I'm at the supervisory level for repairing Contacts. But she has abandoned me. Apple has been trying to solve this, on and off, for over a year. On my phone, contacts just drop away -- not quite randomly; the ones likely to drop away are ones I use more frequently. New contacts don't sync at all any more. This can be really frustrating if I am away from my desk but doing business on the road. These missing contacts may or may not still be there in the cloud, but they are always still there on the Mac. A succession of techs leading to Supervisor Monica have tried just about everything, up to and including a re-install of the OS on the machine, to no avail. Now, my Contacts are appearing in octuplicate. I have run the Card/Look for duplicates routine, and it pruned the duplicates back a bit, but lots and lots of duplicated (and triplicated, and quadruplicated) contacts remain. It really is a **** show.
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This looks good, and thanks for the recommendation. Trouble is, it seems only to piggyback on Contacts, which is what I need to get rid of.
I used and loved Busy Contacts for the past 5 to 6 years. Flawless until my recent upgrade to a M3 IMac when email function failed. Apparently apple changed a sharing setting that prohibits my emails to be shared with Busy Contacts. It was a great feature where each contact in Busy Contacts also displayed each email to and from that contact. I contacted Busy Contacts and they informed me there is no fix. I have been searching for a like app but no luck so far. If anyone knows of a similar app or a fix I would be grateful.
Sorry, no app that I can suggest now that I think of it.
There's this https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/contact-s-2/id639507613
Not sure how well a fit it is for you. BusyContacts would also be my suggestion
Seeing you're trying to rid yourself of Contacts you can try using Thunderbird - an e-mail client / calendar and contacts app
Postbox might do the trick too if you're willing to spend $$$ - it's basically Thunderbird but could be more than that
Not sure how well a fit it is for you. BusyContacts would also be my suggestion
Seeing you're trying to rid yourself of Contacts you can try using Thunderbird - an e-mail client / calendar and contacts app
Postbox might do the trick too if you're willing to spend $$$ - it's basically Thunderbird but could be more than that