Problems adding a new contact since upgrading to high Sierra?

Good to hear.

I was going to file a bug report with their bug tracking system.

I will hold it off until after the upcoming update.

Installed and added new contact, all good!

Will try again soon to see if it always works.

ok just upgraded to 10.13.4 and bug still there.

I have this problem too, but I'm syncing using iCloud!

thanks pbraconnot - that worked, thanks. :-)

For me this is the answer. No search = no problem. Thanks

that's my work-around - thx

Go into Contacts > Preferences> Accounts

Click on the Google CardDAV icon

Change the Fetch from "Automatic" to "Every 30 Minutes"

I tried a shorter time, but was kicked out, so I think that the time frame happens at set times, rather than when you open the account. Not sure what the "Automatic" interval trigger is, but appears to be the problem.

So far this works for me.

I ran into the same problem. After reading other responses, I selected "All on My Mac" instead of one of the gmail accounts for the location of the contact and I had no problem adding new contacts. I guess the trick is not having an "All xxx at Gmail" account selected.

Thanks for your comment, Pablo.

Rather than DATE ADDED, it would make sense to me to have two explicit date and time stamp fields, namely: Created, and Modified.

This would help to control and track erroneous contact information "updates", which I have seen added for example by Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc., that invalidate formerly correct information.

For privacy, Apple seemingly should encourage correct (and secure) contact file information for its users!

I had posted this earlier this month, but it seems to have "gone missing" on this forum. Here it is again:

"What Apple broke with their High Sierra OS 10.13) public release in October 2017 is rather complex.

It apparently involves Apple iCloud, Google, Contacts, “syncing” replication and update processes, and internet correction “push” update timing/sequencing, possibly also including Calendar.

It is very puzzling, although many (inconvenient) temporary work-around tricks have been accidentally discovered and described by numerous Mac users, internationally. This complexity, unfortunately, makes it very difficult to concisely report details about failure experiences to Apple.

The Apple OS code failure may potentially also create some increased hacking risk to users - which supposedly Apple should take seriously. I certainly do!

Sadly, Apple and Google software does not always work well together, and seemingly neither really cares about this Apple OS software logic and code interaction failure. I am still hoping for an eventual explanation and fix from Apple, Google, or both, but it has already been several months since the issue was reported …"

Also, several years ago I had found an automatic comment in Console which reported an outside "attempt to highjack my AddressBook…". At that time I had been running an Intel iMac with OS 10.6.8. Maybe it was a Google issue even back then, but it had been subverted by Apple until the High Sierra release?

The plot, apparently, thickens!

Best, Bob.

Yesterday I took the next step, perhaps it will serve you too.

I have a Gmail-account and I always had it in the Mail-app as one of my 4 mail-accounts. When I checked my mailfolder-list, I saw the mailfolder "Important".. It turned out to be one of the Gmail mailfolders. Huh? Google is deciding for me what is important?? I dragged the content of the Gmail inbox-folder to one of my other Inboxes of my other mailaccounts in the Mail-app. Then I logged into Gmail on the web, opened Settings en Redirect / POP-Imap. There I redirected Gmail to one of my other mail-accounts.

After I did that I went on my Mac to System Preferences > InternetAccounts > Gmail > unchecked mail. That was the last one. I checked if re-directing worked, it did!

Then I deleted the complete Gmail-account on my Mac in System preferences > Internet-accounts. Result: in the Mail-app the list of mail-folders was shorter and the "Important" folder from Google was gone.

Now I am able again to decide for myself what is important to me!😉

Somehow the developers of CardHop (a pretty good contact manager, actually) seem to have solved this intractable problem without a hitch. Doubtless it is a problem right up there with squaring the circle and developing a perpetual motion machine, which is why Apple's finest software engineers have been baffled. No doubt they have spent thousands of hours trying to address the issue. They are just so busy they have not had time to tell anyone.

Yes, that's the central issue. Contacts works only with Apple's iCloud server, and Apple has not done a ****** thing about it. There are a great many users of Google Apps, or other mail/contacts services, for whom migrating to iCloud is neither desirable nor feasible. Contacts *used* to work seamlessly with these other platforms, but since High Sierra was rolled out many months ago, it does not. Many other contacts managers running on High Sierra seem to have found a solution to this gargantuan challenge. Perhaps Apple should just throw in the towel and ask these geniuses how they managed to conquer this issue. Look at how long, and long-running, this thread is!