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Contacts crashes when I try to look for duplicates

I accidentally imported the same vcard file with all my updated contacts twice (once directly in the contacts app and once in iCloud), so now all of my contacts have duplicated. Every time I click "Look for Duplictes," the contacts app on my Mac crashes. I would really like to not have to merge all of my duplicated contacts individually. What's the fix for this?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 5, 2020 11:21 AM

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Posted on Jul 5, 2020 12:16 PM

Contacts might be duplicated , but looking for duplicates and crashing of app is different , the Mac system files are corrupted and its inbuilt applications see the article https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mh35727/mac

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202731

The preliminary ways are run safe mode https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201262

Repair disk permissions https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/repair-a-storage-device-dskutl1040/mac

Create a new test user account https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

And set up contacts account https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/contacts/adrb7e5aaa2a/mac

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Jul 5, 2020 12:16 PM in response to evelynfromasheville

Contacts might be duplicated , but looking for duplicates and crashing of app is different , the Mac system files are corrupted and its inbuilt applications see the article https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mh35727/mac

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202731

The preliminary ways are run safe mode https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201262

Repair disk permissions https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/repair-a-storage-device-dskutl1040/mac

Create a new test user account https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

And set up contacts account https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/contacts/adrb7e5aaa2a/mac

Contacts crashes when I try to look for duplicates

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