Contacts won't let me add a new contact

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Contacts won't let me add a new contact

This is an old question with some answers, but none of the answers fit my Mac running Monterey. It's 2022 and I am running Monterey on a desktop iMac. When I try and add a contact, as I am typing in the details, the screen reverts back to showing the list of contacts, before I can hit "done", making it almost impossible to add a new contact.

I read the suggestions about trashing the Address Book, but I cannot find it on Monterey. Any suggestions??

iMac Pro

Posted on May 16, 2022 1:44 PM

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Answer 1

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picas

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May 16, 2022 4:09 PM in response to wizard_chef

You could try trashing com.apple.AddressBook.plist to see if that helps. Finder menu Go > Go to Folder...> ~/Library/Preferences

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wizard_chef Author

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May 24, 2022 2:06 PM in response to wizard_chef

A solution, although a workaround that someone else posted, is to go to the bottom of the list of contacts and there should be a list of blank contacts there called "No Name." You can pick one of those and edit it to create a new contact. No idea how these No Names get generated. My suspicion is they get created when I am trying to create a new contact by clicking the "+" symbol to add a contact, and it disappears before I can create the contact. But, I have not tested this theory.

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picas

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May 23, 2022 3:35 PM in response to Saxman

It's removing the preferences file.

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Saxman

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May 25, 2022 11:41 AM in response to wizard_chef

I think you're right about that, which is why I ended up deleting all the No Names that had been created! Didn't think of being able to use them to fill in the new contacts I want to add. So you were able to fill in the name & info, by using one of the No Names? I guess I could just create some more, sure wish Apple would fix something as bothersome as this...

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