Addressbook in OS X 10.13. high sierra has such very bad scrolling on a contact, that it makes the notes field contents of a contact card un-viewable

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Addressbook in OS X 10.13. high sierra has such very bad scrolling on a contact, that it makes the notes field contents of a contact card un-viewable

I can't see the notes on my contact cards any longer. Worse yet, the app's notion of the Notes scrolling position is out of sync with the contents. It's only if I hold the down arrow key for a few seconds to send it way down and then start typing (anything) that the contents of the field become visible, and even then the scrolling and cursor insertion points are way off from the text displayed.

APPLE: THIS IS A ROYAL MESS! It makes me want to throw your AddressBook crapp out the window!~

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Oct 3, 2017 10:06 PM

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Oct 4, 2017 8:31 AM in response to tygb

@tygb - Yes! at least that's a part of what I experience. The app really doesn't seem to get its display clipping window set correctly. In the screencap at the end -- see how I've also selected through all of the text from "iate a" on down - the selection lights up the boundaries of where the clipping window has been set. Resizing the right hand vertical panel in the window to make it wider/narrower/taller/shorter shows something interesting. If I widen the right panel to a certain minimum width or wider, then the problem doesn't show itself. It seems that if the panel is made narrower than the [buggy] minimum it requires, then it doesn't compensate by making the clipping window longer (going down enough) to hold all of the text that needs to be displayed.

I'm going to go ahead and try working with the right panel at a size at or wider than the minimum width, so as not to encounter this display big. Perhaps this issue is solved by this chincy workaround.

Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it!

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Oct 4, 2017 3:41 AM in response to Matt Peel

Try restarting in Safe Mode and see if Contacts works correctly there (everything in Safe Mode is slow; that is normal).

Then restart normally and see if it works.

If it works in Safe Mode but crashes when botted normally that indicates that some other software is causing a conflict.

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Oct 4, 2017 1:12 AM in response to pictoperson

I am not seeing this.

You could try resizing the contacts window a bit, as sometimes this is enough to fix bad scrolling behavior such as this one.

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Oct 4, 2017 1:33 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

I can't even use the Contacts App without getting the beachball of doom. If I open the application, or if I double click a contact in Spotlight (which I have to because spotlight doesn't populate as normal with the contact's data).

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tygb

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Oct 4, 2017 6:26 AM in response to pictoperson

Are you talking about the gap shown while typing between note and a word as should be just begin after the note .

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Oct 31, 2017 10:54 AM in response to pictoperson

This display "choice" by Apple is a disaster for anyone (like me) who depends on ready information re: contacts. The inability to scroll through (as I can still do on iOS device) is a major hinderance. Trying to resize the app to display data is cumbersome and should be unnecessary. Poor design!

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