#Apple mac contacts cleaner archive

You can actually select it using Spotlight just hitting the spacebar here. Well, if you have a VCF file, that is what these are called, that is just a single contact. But if I do how can I get access to them. I can put it in a folder somewhere called Old Contacts and chances are I might never need them again. So now that I have exported this I can, with it still selected here in Contacts, delete it and it is gone from my Contacts database.

All you need to do is to select it and drag to a Finder window or desktop and it creates a simple file for that contact. In order to create a copy of something like that it is very easy. Contacts that you don't think you will ever need again but it is worth taking just a little bit of space on your Mac's hard drive to have a copy just in case.

#Apple mac contacts cleaner archive

But if you are like me sometimes you want to kind of create an archive of old contacts. So, to clean them out all you need to do, of course, is to select one and then hit Delete and it will delete that contact. After all with iCloud now these are synced across all of our different devices which means a long list can be cumbersome if you are searching for somebody. Every once in a while you may want to go through them and clean them out.

In your Contacts app you have all of your contacts. On today's episode let's look at how you can clean up your Contacts database by exporting contacts that you may no longer need. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.