How to rebuild Monterey Contacts database?
How to rebuild Monterey Contacts database?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.4
How to rebuild Monterey Contacts database?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.4
I don't believe there is any way to do that for an ON MY MAC account. It won't import the metadata backing store files.
If you export all your contacts as a vCard, you could then re-import them after deleting the ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb and associated -shm, -wal files.
If you have groups to recover, select all from each group and export as vCard. Name each for the group. When you re-import each vCard, create a new Group, then use the Last Import to select all and drag into the newly created group as you import each group vCard one-at-a-time.
And, you cannot use Contacts Archive. It suffers the same problem in that it cannot actually restore the XML backing store files. I have no idea why they haven't fix this problem.
For an online account, like iCloud, disable it in Contacts Preferences > Accounts, then re-enable it.
What exactly do you mean by rebuild? What are you seeing that indicates rebuilding is necessary?
If the data is gone, you have two choices: recreate each contact manually or rely on a backup.
How to rebuild Monterey Contacts database?