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How to clean up your Mac Messages contact list
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messages-clean.md
  • Delete Google Plus profile - stops the syncing of circles and friends
  • Revert to old Google Talk
  • Unlink Google account from System Preferences -> Internet Accounts
  • Clean up contacts in http://contacts.google.com
  • Open messages, select all, remove
  • Remove Messages related plists
  • Re-add Google account to Internet Accounts
  • Open Apple Contacts - this should now pull down a clean list of your contacts
  • Open Messages
  • Manually add accounts back in. cmd-shift-a, tab, start typing the first name and it'll autocomplete
  • If any contacts are missing, chat with them from within Gmail, and they'll be added back
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aitchabee commented Sep 3, 2014

Revert to old Google Talk

How does one do this? Does it just ask you?

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