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Since upgrading to High Sierra, I get a popup with this message at least once a day. I don't know what contactsdonationagent is but everything appears to be working correctly. Is there a way to keep this from happening?

MacBook, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Nov 27, 2017 2:58 PM

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Posted on Dec 4, 2017 4:53 AM

yep, same here.

contactsdonationagent

from

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ContactsDonation.framework/Versions/A/Support/ contactsdonationagent

and the biinary appears to have been written in Swift3


So far I think it's related to Contacts. Maybe a contact being added or deleted has caused something to break.

The plist refers to lots of related things


@!com.apple.contacts.donation-agent??qq0<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>com.apple.CommCenter.fine-grained</key>

<array>

<string>spi</string>

</array>

<key>com.apple.coretelephony.Identity.get</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.private.accounts.allaccounts</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.private.contacts</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.private.tcc.allow</key>

<array>

<string>kTCCServiceAddressBook</string>

</array>

<key>com.apple.security.app-sandbox</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.security.personal-information.addressbook</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.security.temporary-exception.shared-preference.read-write</key>

<array>

<string>com.apple.suggestions</string>

</array>

</dict>

</plist>

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Question marked as Best reply

Dec 4, 2017 4:53 AM in response to bobccaruso

yep, same here.

contactsdonationagent

from

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ContactsDonation.framework/Versions/A/Support/ contactsdonationagent

and the biinary appears to have been written in Swift3


So far I think it's related to Contacts. Maybe a contact being added or deleted has caused something to break.

The plist refers to lots of related things


@!com.apple.contacts.donation-agent??qq0<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>com.apple.CommCenter.fine-grained</key>

<array>

<string>spi</string>

</array>

<key>com.apple.coretelephony.Identity.get</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.private.accounts.allaccounts</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.private.contacts</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.private.tcc.allow</key>

<array>

<string>kTCCServiceAddressBook</string>

</array>

<key>com.apple.security.app-sandbox</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.security.personal-information.addressbook</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.security.temporary-exception.shared-preference.read-write</key>

<array>

<string>com.apple.suggestions</string>

</array>

</dict>

</plist>

Nov 28, 2017 2:28 PM in response to Community User

Hi bob39,

I see that no one has responded to your post. If you can provide answers to the following questions, it may help the community to better understand your issue.

Have you tried restarting to see if the issue persists? Have you tried starting your mac in safe mode? Do you use multiple user accounts on your Mac? If so, does this occur in your other user accounts as well? Have you noticed any other strange popup messages since your upgrade? Does this message seem to normally appear at a particular time of day or while you're using a particular application?

Take care.

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