MAC Contacts closes

[drmajor]

IMAC 27", 2019. Any changes I make in Contacts, It closes. It has been doing this for some time. I have just re-installed OS 11.6.4.

Here is some of the "message" I get. Not sure it helps.??

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Process: Contacts [39133]
Path: /System/Applications/Contacts.app/Contents/MacOS/Contacts
Identifier: com.apple.AddressBook
Version: 13.0 (2452.7.1)
Build Info: AddressBook_executables-2452007001000000~3
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Contacts [39133]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2022-03-17 14:23:49.527 -0400
OS Version: macOS 11.6.4 (20G417)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 86C2629B-3F3D-5CA4-B9B9-614696BC4B68

Sleep/Wake UUID: A78C5B40-4D35-4CD7-B16B-DCF0D4324B09

Time Awake Since Boot: 63000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 8900 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process: exc handler [39133]

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Does it happen with existing contacts or with new contacts? You might have some corrupt data that's causing this problem.

If a re-install didn't fix it, it leads more credence to not being a Contacts application issue.

Are you syncing your contacts from your Apple ID or do you have local contacts on your machine? If the former, you might want to try go into Sys Prefs->Apple ID and unchecking the Contacts option. Going into Contacts and confirming that everything is gone and then re-checking it to get them all back and see if that resolves it.

If you are dealing with local contacts, you might might want to Export your contacts and then delete all of the contacts and re-import and see if that resolves the issue.

 

[drmajor]

Appreciate the input... will check that.

If I mod existing contact, it will crash.

 

[pigoo3]

I'm thinking something similar to what Ashwin mentioned regarding "corrupt data"...or something else the macOS may be "confused" about.

If no solution is found:

* First thing is reboot the computer & see if that helps.
* 2nd. If you don't already have it installed...download & install the great maintenance app called "Onyx". Open it...and run it on it's default settings...then reboot.

Be super sure to download the correct version of Onyx for the macOS version you have installed:

Titanium Software | Operating System Utilities for Mac - OnyX

OnyX is a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files; run tasks of cleaning and computer maintenance; configure some hidden parameters of many Apple applications; and more.

www.titanium-software.fr

Good luck,

Nick