Limit the backup to selected contacts

[seamusdemora]

Hello! First, I'd like to thank you all (both of you?) for a marvelous piece of work. I've just downloaded and run baskup, and it seems to have worked. That said, I actually got more than what I expected or wanted really. It's a minor point, but since I wanted to say "thank you" anyway, thought I'd mention this.

When I copied contacts from iCloud to "stored on my Mac", I only copied one contact as that was the only contact for which I wanted a "complete record". As it turned out, I got 122 folders - approx the same as the 107 iMessage conversations currently on my MacBook. Also, the one contact I did copy over from iCloud was identified only by phone number, not by the contact's name.

[mchangrh]

Not the maintainer, but contact names are not stored anywhere in the database so it becomes almost impossible to extract the data, They are instead stored with only SMS;-;+1PHONE-NUMBER or iMessage;-;PHONE-NUMBER or iMessage;-;[email protected]

[seamusdemora]

Perhaps I'm simply confused, but there is a feature called 'Contact Recognition' available in ver 2.0. It says it has the "ability to match phone numbers with contacts". Does that not imply that matching is possible?

In my case, I've moved only two of my contacts from iCloud to Local. My thinking was that if I only move the ones I'm interested in, then they will be the only ones that are backed up, or at least the only ones with a contact name instead of a mobile number. But that doesn't work either!

Perhaps I should ask, "What's the purpose of 'Contact Recognition'?