Q: Contacts on Mavericks 10.9.1 is slow and not adding new contacts. Can anyone assist with a fix?
Can anyone assist? For the past week I have been unable to add new contacts to the application and am having to input them manually. It takes a while too, as the app has sloed down tremendously.
I have around 1900 contacts in there but can't imagine that is the reason?
Can anyone assist in whether I can fix the problem or update anything? Or suggest an alternative contacts application?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Posted on Feb 8, 2014 1:52 PM
I had a similar issue as you did -- for a few weeks now I've been suffering through agonizingly slow Contacts performance.
The way I resolved it was:
1) Quit Contacts
2) Go to system preferences and go into iCloud, then uncheck contacts -- choosing to delete from mac.
3) Go into system preferences and to Internet Accounts and again uncheck contacts under any of the accounts it's enabled on (gmail, yahoo, etc).
4) Go to your user's library folder (easiest way is to open a finder window, hold down the option key on the keyboard and from the Go menu, select Library).
5) Delete anything referring to Address book or com.apple.address book.... -- check these folders in particular:
- Address Book
- Application Support
- Caches
- Preferences
6) Restart your computer
7) Go back into System preferences and enable contacts from wherever you want (iCloud, etc.)
8) If it's not quite enabling (appears to enable, but checkbox doesn't show), then do one more restart of the computer.
9) Now open Contacts and allow it to sync
Posted on Aug 20, 2014 6:16 PM