addressbook (contacts app) iMac very slow …

the problem seems to be solved.

Wat did the trick?

I contacted Apple support and I got an extensive guiding through deductive analysis of the problem.

We found 2 separate problems, of which, in 1 case, it was probably a manual error on my account with setting in screen time on my iPhone: I use the to monitor the screen time of our youngest son. The latter appears totally obsolete, for these youngsters are wizards in circumventing these setting, so it seems - he always seems to have much more allowance …

Somehow I managed to mak an unwanted setting in my own screen time.

I found this out by trying to uncheck my addresses in my iCloud. It did not allow me, giving me the reason that I had this setting in screen time. removing it solved that.

The second thing, and advice from Apple was to re-install my system. Did that and now all seems to work fine.

thanks for all of your time.

MichelleT18 wrote:

Hello Jo! and welcome to Apple Support Communities.

It appears you are having some difficulty with iCloud syncing in terms of impact on performance on your Mac.

First, note that the info in the article you cited is very old. It still references MobileMe which was shuttered years ago when it morphed into iCloud. Have you used Activity Monitor to make sure the sync process is what is consuming CPU cycles?

How to use Activity Monitor on your Mac

Cheers.

thank you, yes I figured that much.

problem is how to solve it.

I did notice that the article is very old, but it was all I could find.

And yes, back in the days of mobile me (goodoldays) there were quite some issues, as I remember. One of the things that remained for me were my dotmac mail-addresses.

Seems so long ago.

yes sure, I used activitymonitor. And it does consume quite a bit of power. addressbooksourcesync. but only during editing / adding content

whilst it does that, the app freezes. funny thing is when I type during this freeze and it unfreezes the text appears from right to left. quite annoying.

jdo_apple wrote:

Hi Jo!

This is, indeed, an issue that has been reported with some regularity for a number of years. Apple Support Communities power user, Linc Davis posted a set of instructions that a number of users have reported as being effective.

1) Back up all data.

Back up your Mac with Time Machine

2) At System Preferences > Internet Accounts > iCloud, deselect the checkbox for Contacts.

Hi there,

thank you for the above.

trying to uncheck the contacts gives no result: it doesn't want to be unchecked!

this is not only for my main iCloud, but for all of them

when I analyse this correctly:

being disconnected from iCloud, would be the solution.

the above method allows for only disconnecting contacts.

Since this is not working, I may have to disconnect iCloud completely. This probably results in erasing all the content from the Mac. this should be fine, since all data is in the cloud.

Doing the trick with erasing

~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook

import the contacts and then re-connecting, will reload all services from the cloud??

… or does this operation need more?

tried that. It simply will not allow me to sign out: the contacts remains checked. I cannot uncheck.

bailier wrote:

Hi Jo!.

If you're not able to de-select only the Contacts option, then signing out, rebooting and then signing back in is the next logical step.

When you do so, you will be presented with options for retaining iCloud data on the Mac as a failsafe. As the sign out part of the equation is not going to be for an extended period, you are likely better off not invoking those options.

Cheers.