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How to clean up your Mac Messages contact list
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  • 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
  • Open GMail, from the chat, message the contacts you want to show up in Messages. This will send an invite to Messages that you can accept
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Revert to old Google Talk

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

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