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I use a PC with Outlook 2010 at my office. At home I use and iMac. My mobile devices are an iPad & iPhone. I just upgraded all operating systems and switched from Mobile Me to iCloud. Everything (new appointments, new contacts) seems to sync as it should with a couple of exceptions;
1) In the "notes" sections of my CONTACTS I now have triplicates of all of my "notes" for each individual contact (with thousands of contacts it would be impossible to clean this up one at a time). Does anyone know how to easily fix this so that I only have 1 set of notes for each contact?
2) Regarding the CALENDARS...in Outlook and the other devices, I'm only running the iCloud calendars (all others are unchecked) however, there are multiple Calendars that seem to have been created. I've deleted all calendars that aren't necessary or don't appear to be used, however in my iOS devices (iphone & ipad) when I tap the CALENDARS button to open the SHOW CALENDARS pane, I can scroll down and see a section that says "Other" and has a "Birthdays" calendar which is obviously pulling the data from Outlook. This "birthday" calendar doesn't show up anywhere in Oulook. 95% of my contacts were originally created in Outlook and when known, I have put their birthdays, anniversaries, etc. in the corresponding fields. Normally, this would create a recurring event/reminder in Outlook but now I have 2 to 4 of the same event in each device. If I delete the redundant Birthdays/anniversaries, etc. (shown in grey & blue on my calendar vs. another little icon of a birthday present) on the iOS devices the calendar on Outlook will no longer show these events (90% of the time I'm relying on my Outlook calendar at work for these reminders). I would like to be able to see the same data as only 1 occurence of each event across each of my devices. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.

The problem may be that the iphone is immediately syncing with icloud and losing the newly restored data. You might turn off your router. Once restored, turn off icloud on the device, turn on the router, then turn on the iphone.
(I'm going by memory on this, and that hasn't been too reliable lately.)

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