Adding a new contact crashes before I can add details (MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1)

You could try adding the contact to an iCloud account, then drag into Goolag.

You can also enable an On My Mac account and try adding new contacts to that, then move them.

I doubt Goolag will ever make their server fully compatible. That’s not how they want you to use their services.

Judging from the reply from @ ADSParkes

" Thank you very much, yes the suggestion of switching off all internet connection does enable contacts to be added without crashing. "

It would seem the previous suggestion from @PRP_53 was successful

Have you tried that method, yet ?

ADSParkes wrote:

When attempting to add a new contact card via Contacts app on MacBook Pro (latest OS), the card disapperas back to original list before I can add more than 1 or two fields and click done. I have seen this issue reported in the community a couple of years ago on older OS' and the suggestion was that having a google account sync'd was the root cause. I would have thought that a fix had been found by now? It would be easier to create new contacts that appear in WhatsApp groups, by creating a new contact on PC rather than by phone but this does not seem possible!

Short answer - Ask Google if they have fixed their Service to play niece when used on macOS

It is not the other way around

Apple has never, since I started back in 2003 , that Apple has tailored their Software to accommodate Other Third Party Services

On the constructive side

Take the computer Off - Line ( No Internet Connection )

Add your contact information

Does it work as expected ?

This happens to me. When the data disappears, I notice that it creas a NO NAME all the way at the bottom of your list. I edit taht one and it works. BUT... I shouldn't have to do that. Whjat is the fix?