Mavericks-Contacts-iCloud

Contacts on my iMac is crashing every 5-10 minutes and not syncing through iCloud. Calendar is fine.
Release of software before thorough testing? Apple is in danger of becoming another MS. Get it together.
As mentioned by others, security is a serious concern with the upload of the Contacts and Calendar data to a servwe somewhere in the cloud. Given the revelations of recent days and steady flow of examples where "secure' sites are broken, the Apple user community deserves more than platitudes. Get it together.

Enabling iCloud contact syncing will merge contacts that are stored locally (from the On My iPhone and/or On My Mac accounts), but not from external accounts (Gmail, etc.). If they belong to external accounts you can simply drag and drop these to the iCloud account to add them to iCloud.

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My wife and I share an iTunes account. Is there any way to set up a seperate one for her to sync her phone contacts, iCloud and music to without having to purchase all her music again and then share going forward?

My wife and I share an iTunes account. Is there any way to set up a seperate one for her to sync her phone contacts, iCloud and music to without having to purchase all her music again and then share going forward?
It would be so much easier having seperate accounts but we have hundreds of her purchased songs on my account and she would need to be able to access these from her account. Possible?
Also, if we bought a song in future we would want to be able to both have access to it.
Alternatively, what is the easy way to sync two distinctly different contact lists to one iTunes account?
Thank you in advance.

FYI: iTunes account (used to make purchases) is not the same as iTunes library (iTunes on your computer with music, movies, etc.).
ecbclb wrote:
Will we have to create a seperate account for her, or can we all have the same one?
You can but you will not be able to limit what she syncs.
I would like to avoid 'checking' and 'unchecking' individual songs every time one of us tries to synch our ipods to the library.
I don't recommend using (only) the checkmarks to select what to sync.
Each of you can create your own playlists then sync only those playlists.
Then add/delete from your own playlists to change iPod content.
The only time I uncheck items is if I rarely/never want to sync them to anything, such as Christmas music or old audiobooks.
I suggest you each have your own computer login account. Then everyone has their own contacts, calendars, and everything else.
You and your husband can share an iTunes library and let your daughter have her own.

HT3952 Printing Labels from Mac (Maverick) Contacts list

I have successfully printed a sheet of 21 labels (Avery 7160). I created a new group in Mac (Maverick) Contacts List and typed each address individually for this mailshot. It worked without problem.
Now I have opened another new group and typed in an identical address for each label. When I try to print out the sheet of labels, it will only print one label. It even does this when I add some text to each label as to avoid them being identical. Can you help please?

Bear in mind that BT are moving away from Yahoo, so very soon, you will not get access to your Yahoo stuff.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

How do i contact icloud for that

Hi there, i would like to get a full refund for storage i have purchased how do i contact icloud for that?! it doesnt say where i can contact for a refund

Have you actually been charged? Did you convert from MobileMe? If so, you'll be automatically put on that plan, but revert to the free one when your current one expires.

HT6030 Since updating my macbook pro to IO X Mavericks, my iCloud email account will not hold its password. Apple support has not been able to suggest a resolution. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Since updating my macbook pro to IO X Mavericks, my iCloud email account will not hold its password. Apple support cannot provide a resolution. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Have you tried - in Mail go to the menu Mail > Preferences.
When the Preferences Pane opens, click on the Accounts Tab.
Click on your iCloud Account to select it.
Click on the Advanced tab.
Set Authentication to Apple Token.
Close the Preference Pane.
MtD

Upgraded to Mavericks - and iCloud.   Calendar will not stop 'updating' - and has not synced all entries across all devices/calendars.

Hello Apple Support Community;
I am looking for some help on several matters related to my upgrade to OS X Mavericks this week.   THIS issue is one related to CALENDAR.
I believe that I have done everything (as instructed) to install, activate, and sync contacts and calendars via iCloud - immediately following my upgrade to Mavericks earlier this week.   When I opened CALENDAR for the first time - from the Dock on my computer (not the iCloud calendar) - after upgrading to Mavericks and setting up iCloud - CALENDAR provided a pop-up notification stating "Moving calendars to server account..." with a moving "candy cane" progress bar.
This has been "updating" for about 12 hours, now.   And while open and "updating" - it will not allow ANY other commands, scrolling, or menu options.   Additionally, I am unable to close this calendar of the Mac, unless I 'Force Quit'.   I have, in fact, executed Force Quit, and restarted the Mac.   No change... it still "updates".
When I open the iCloud calendar - it opens and works (mostly).   There are events on my iPhone 5 that are not on the iCloud calendar.   And there are events on the iCloud calendar that are not on my iPhone.   I have created new calendar events on each calendar account (iCloud on my Mac and iPhone 5) - and they seem to automatically update each device.   There does not seem to be any obviously rationale for the inconsistency of the calendar (iCloud and iPhone).
Can you offer ideas for possible solutions to:
1) the "permanently updating" calendar from the Dock on my Mac?
2) ensure that all events are properly synced across all calendar accounts (and devices)?
THANK YOU!!

Hello Phil... I got nothing from the Apple Communities.   May have been very hard to diagnose via my description - or hard to resolve given many possible solutions.
The perpetually updating scroll-bar-of-death continued for about a week.
I DID (finally) get resolution from the Genius Bar in my local Apple Store.   They deleted all prior "local" calendar back-ups and content - as I had my Calendar up on iCloud - which essentially "reset" the calendar function... and then reloaded the calendar, and then pulled in my calendar data from iCloud.
They twisted and tweaked a few more things that I was not able to follow (sorry I cannot offer more assistance on these other things).
They also reloaded Mavericks.
Everything seems to be working well now.
Apple Community... any more guidance for Phil - and others???
Good luck, Phil.

Where is the file that contains the addresses from the Mavericks Contacts app? I need to synch two such files between computers.

I've been using Synchronise Pro X for years to sync several key work folders between a desktop machine (iMac) and my MacBook Pro. Having just upgraded both computers to Mavericks, things still worked, but the file scaning in SyncPro was very slow, so I upgraded to the latest version of Synchronise.... Now I've noticed that I cannot find the data files for what used to the Address Book program (and is now called Contacts) on either computer. Where are those files kept, as is there any reason that I would not be able to sync them?

I'll try iCloud, although I'm not happy with sharing my address book with Apple. Is there a secure way to do this? Also, when I tried to use iCloud to share Notes across my phone and the two Macs, I ended up with duplicate copies. Will that also happen with the contact list?

Untangling Mavericks from iCloud

I recently updated our Macs from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to Mavericks (10.9.x). We had skipped Lion and Mountain Lion due to their heavy iCloud entanglement. iCloud syncing is a handy tool for on-the-go metropolitans with high bandwidth, symmetrical internet access and/or abundant free WiFi locations. But for those of us who live in the country, with our only choice being low bandwidth asymmetrical (often capped) internet access, iCloud syncing of photo streams and data is a cruel, have-vs-have-not, joke. Besides, I’ve never thought it was all that clever to share/sync files, calendars, contacts, notes between two Macs attached to the same private WiFi network by pushing the data to/from the cloud.
So as soon as I did the clean install of Mavericks, I began looking for how to untangle Mavericks (and iOS 7) from iCloud. The following tables summarize what I did. If anyone is interested in the details, just ask.
Minimize iCloud Entanglement in OS X
iMac & MacBook Pro
Internet Accounts
Turn off iCloud sharing (except Mail)
Sync Mail
Use IMAP Mail servers (iCloud & gmail)
Sharing/Syncing (local network only)
Install OS X server and set up...
Files
File Sharing
Calendar
CalDav
Contacts
CardDav
Notes
Mail server (used only for Notes)
Sharing/Syncing (via iCloud)
Photos
Limited use of small Shared Photo Streams*
Apple’s “iCloud” Applications:
(e.g. TextEdit, Preview,…)
Open/save dialogs
Turn off iCloud saving in iCloud sys pref
Missing menu item for “Save As…”
Add keyboard shortcut (shift-command-s)
Minimize iCloud Entanglement in iOS
iPad Mini & iPhone 5s
Sync Mail
Use IMAP Mail servers (as above)
Sharing/Syncing (local network only)
Calendars, Contacts, Notes
Use local OSX server (as above)
Sharing/Syncing (via iCloud)
Photos
Limited use of small Shared Photo Streams*
Backups
Manually backup to Macs
*Apple’s existing iOS tools (Photos and iPhoto) for organizing photos into albums and then syncing them with Macs are pitifully inadequate. For us, the simplest method is to build an album on a Mac in iPhoto and share it with our other Mac and iOS devices via a Shared Photo Stream. Even this limited use of the iCloud has drawbacks. Like when we brought the new iPhone 5s home and it brought our internet connection to it’s knees for several hours while downloading the Shared Photo Streams in the background.
—GetRealBro

The reasons to untangle Mavericks from the clouds fall into two main categories:
Practical - reduced use of iCloud services which can use considerable bandwidth (e.g. Photo Streams) and/or use bandwidth at inconvenient times (e.g. App Store update downloads in the background).
Several items are quick and easy settings within Mavericks/iOS 7 which address the more “practical” aspects.
Photo Streams - If you take a lot of photos and have several iOS and OS X devices, My Photo Streams can be a serious bandwidth hog. You can turn them off in OSX - iPhoto>Preferences>iCloud and iOS Settings>iCloud.>Photos
App store background updates - You can’t reduce the bandwidth required to download the updates. But you can control WHEN that bandwidth is used by setting the App Store preferences which are found in…. System Preferences.
iOS Backups - You can reduce the bandwidth required to backup your iOS devices to the iCloud by adjusting which items are backed up to iCloud - Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage>[pick your iOS device]. Then periodically backup your iOS devices manually in iTunes.
Apple’s “iCloud Apps” (e.g. Textedit, Preview, iMovie, iWorks apps etc) - in OSX you can turn off storing/syncing via iCloud by adjusting the settings in…. System Preferences>iCloud>Documents & Data. In iOS you adjust these in Settings>[scroll to the application name]>Use iCloud
Philosophical - replacing iCloud services (e.g. syncing/sharing of Contacts, Calendars, Notes, etc.) with local services to enhance privacy and possibly improve performance, depending on internet bandwidth / caps.
Here are some things to consider before replacing iCloud services with local ones provided by OSXServer.
Setting up an OSXserver to share/sync Calendars, Contacts, Notes, etc. will not dramatically reduce your internet bandwidth.
The key component OSXserver costs $20 and requires a Mac that is running 24/7/365 (e.g. a headless Mac Mini). OSxserver does NOT require a dedicated Mac. It can run on a “users” Mac (e.g. an iMac). But that user has to be mindful to not disrupt services with frequent/unannounced Restarts (e.g. as required by some software updates).
The local shared services (syncing contacts/calendar, file sharing, etc.) only work when you are connected to your local WiFi network. For example, if you add a Contact, make a Note or add a Calendar item on your iPhone while at the dentist, they will not get synced to your Mac/iPad until you get back home.
Setting up an OSXServer for syncing sharing, Contacts, Calendars, Notes, and Files is not difficult. But it requires a bit of planning to configure user accounts etc., so that it is easy to configure/administer the iOS and OSX devices. And of course you become the systems administrator for the OSXserver. Sharing/syncing Contacts, Calendars, Notes via OSXserver rather than iCloud will not reduce significant internet traffic/bandwidth. The main reason to switch to OSXserver is philosophical.
Apple’s iWork apps (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) are difficult to untangle from iCloud. OSX server does support Webdav for “sharing” iWork app files between users/devices. But this is not the same a live syncing via iCloud.
Finally, the actual untangling takes some planning to extract the contacts and calendar info from iCloud and transfer it to calDAV and cardDAV on OSXserver.
Are you after the “practical” or “philosophical” or both?
— GetRealBro

Mavericks multiple iCloud emails stopped working

The iCloud settings for my Apple Mail iCloud accounts have changed, not with any interaction from me.
Now only one of the four iCloud accounts I have attached to my Mail client is working.   I've had these accounts since the .Mac "Family Account" days and they're all active.
Also, an aside... my Contacts list was getting slow, and it didn't take long to find over 17,000 NULL contact entries in my Contact. Did something strange happen to iCloud last week?

Actually I have 5 iCloud accounts for this one user account.   All are configured under Mail, and have been working for years (if not decades ).   Most are migrants that've been moved through the .mac/.me/.icloud transitions since setting them up over time since the 1990's. Most of the 5 use the p02-imap server for incoming mail. One is on p25-imap.
What's changing at the moment is the "outgoing server (SMTP)" is being set to None for all the accounts. I can change them all back but two of the SMTP servers are showing Offline.
After resetting to the proper SMTP server account (there must be five, one for each iCloud account as the authorizations are different), two of the 5 email accounts under Mail are showing Offline SMTP servers.
Another change is I can no longer see all five in the "Edit SMTP Server List" dialog.   Only iCloud SMTP server appears in the pick list -- that would be the one that's correct for each account. This is how I can reset the SMTP server alignment.
It was truly a pain to add the last iCloud account to Mail after the Mavericks upgrade, so it is obvious something changed in iCloud Account Management with Mavericks. There's no way to rename the account from the front end, and I've not bothered to dig into the internals.
Data point: The two offline accounts both work on my iOS devices
Data point: The two offline accounts both work with Thunderbird email (and in Outlook email in one case).
Data point: I do have over a dozen other non-iCloud accounts working under Mail, so the SMTP list is similarly large.
The problem is most definitely within the Mavericks Mail client.

I don't see my Mavericks Contacts groups on my iphone

I have a long list of useful groups in Contacts on my iMac under Mavericks. My iPhone 5S sees the contacts but not the groups. Why is this?

Thanks, Nubz, but I'm wasn't willing to go through the conversion of my Contacts files into vCards (2200+ contacts, 40+ groups) without a more positive reason why. For a start, it seems to be the wrong end - my iMac (10.9.5) and Contacts app are not the problem - it is iCloud, iPhone, and iPad that do not recognise the groups on my iMac (including those set up post 8.0.2 release). I have poked around and found at least a workaround, but it seems that there might be serious changes at 10.9.5/8.0.2 that have come into play.
I did reset Sync Services but with no effect.
iTunes on the iMac, supposedly controlling sync, merely reports that the iPhone is being synced from iCloud - there are no controls available there, giving frinstance a choice between syncing to iCloud or not. Tellingly, it does not mention syncing with Contacts on the iMac.
iPhone Contacts app has a "Groups" button, but there seems no way of creating a group. + invites a new contact, not a group.
iCloud does allow creation of groups, and groups created in iCloud a r e visible in iPhone and iMac . This seems to be a big clue.
My Groups were set up over the years in Contacts on the iMac, and live under the "On my Mac" heading in the group pane. If I option-drag a group name to iCloud in the group pane, it is duplicated there; any new contacts are added to "All iCloud"; the group is synced onto the iPhone.
So, it seems to me that syncing, wherever it occurs now, does not include Groups in Contacts on iMac u n l e s s they are also in iCloud.
If there is indeed some way of syncing contacts without iCloud, I would like to see it documented. (The procedure for rebuilding the Contact database does not seem to be a sensible way to sync contacts on a daily basis!)
Lindsay (tonkthomas)

How can I transfer files from my macbook pro to my ipad w/ retna display via my USB, I can't get maverick or icloud to load on my macbook.

I just bought a new ipad and would like to transfer files from my macbook pro. I cannot get icloud to work on my Macbook. I cannot get Maverick to load on my macbook.

if I plug my ipad to my macbook nothing happens except it charges. no screen prompt like I would expect.

Contacts & iCloud: can you have more than one iCloud account syncing with Contacts on the Mac?

I want to set up a shared iCloud account for multiple users in a (very) small office environment, where several new iOS devices and, for the moment, two Macs (2012 13" MacBook Pro and 2013 Mac Mini) will be able to read/write to a shared Contacts account – and at the same time maintain a second, personal iCloud account linked to the same Contacts app on one machine, which account's contacts data will remain private and inaccessible to the other Macs/devices which are likewise using the shared account.
Can this be done? (I.e., can Contacts app on a Mac include separate iCloud accounts?)
If so, how to set it up?
Thanks

Thanks for your answer. There's no problem with others accessing that Mac – it's used by one person only – my question is can you add a second iCloud account to Contacts. Over the past two days I had tried to add the shared iCloud account to Contacts and kept getting failures. But maybe the server was down or the ISP was weird: your response assumes it can be done and so, to my embarrassment, I tried again just now and violá, it's done. Thanks again.
P.S. Finding a simple presentation that makes clear you can have more than one iCloud accounts syncing to Contacts at the same time was very hard to find, either from Apple or others on the web. Maybe I don't know how to search, but they could do with a clear explanation of this for the uninitiated.

E-mail addresses in Apple Mail not showing up in Apple Contacts (iCloud All Contacts)

I've been going though my contacts in the Apple Contacts app, which I have set up to use iCloud, deleting old contacts and cleaning up messy ones. And I've noticed there are a lot of e-mail addresses that I have in Apple Mail - I just start to type a few letters in the To: field and they come up - that are nowhere to be seen in the Contacts app.
Shouldn't these be in my Contacts app? Where else would these contacts be stored? And is there a way to sync them into my iCloud All Contacts or do I have to manually track each one down and add it in the Contacts app?
Quick edit to add: I've also now noticed that the same applies on my iPhone. E-mail addresses appear in iOS Mail that are not in my iOS Contacts app (I've performed a search to be doubly sure). Where do these contacts live and why are they not in my Contacts apps?
Message was edited by: darcyfitzpatrick

darcyfitzpatrick wrote:
I do have both of those, but only iCloud shows up in my Contacts sidebar, and addresses are being sent there so I guess it's the default. Funny how this stuff is all so murky.
Not murky at all:
And as the On My Mac account does not show then it is empty. (It's visible if it is the default or if it has any content)
I haven't come across your last point, (no email address) so no help there I'm afraid.

IPhone 6 contacts & iCloud sync = not so much

When I add/change a contact on the iPhone (6), it doesn't always sync with iCloud (and therefore with my other devices). When I do it the other way around (add contact on MacBook or iMac), it appears on the phone immediately. I searched the database but haven't had luck with the suggestions I found there. This is what I have tried:
I have made sure "All iCloud" is checked under Groups in Contacts.
I have made sure Default Account is iCloud in Mail, Calendar, Contacts (Settings).
I turned off/on the Contacts toggle in iCloud settings AND
I have unchecked/checked Contacts in System preferences, THEN restarted both the Mac and the phone.
Gimme some loving' --

Hello Mav,
We've an article that deatils a number of helpful steps which can assist with getting your iCloud Contacts working correctly on all of your devices.
Get help using iCloud Contacts
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS3998
Cheers,
Allen

OS X Mavericks Contacts phone numbers shown as Floating point numbers

After installing Mavericks on MBP, I notice that some phone numbers in contacts are shown as floating point numbers, and are unreadable. I am guessing that these are numbers which were proceeded by "+" previously.
An example is 4.9161E+12, which is for a German contact, and the number would be +49 161...
I can't see any way to change the format, and the floating point display is useless, as the last digits are lost.
Would appreciate any advice on the matter.
Many thanks,
Michael.

Music and pics are one way sync - computer to iphone. The iphone is not a storage device.
Only itunes purchased music can be transfered. With iphone attached to itunes, click file>transfer purchases.
Pics are optimized for viewing on iphone, reducing the quality of the pic on the iphone. Only pics taken with iphone and in the Camera Roll can be imported from iphone. This is done as with any other digital camera. You can e-mail the other pics to yourself one at a time. They will not be of the original quality though.
You really should back up your info/pics/music as hard drives can and do fail.

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