Thansk so much for holding my hand through this, I think it worked. I went into
accounts in Contacts preferences, unchecked everything, panicked when I
suddenly had an empty contact list, relaxed a bit, then checked iCloud. All my
contacts are back, as are my groups. As of now, no major slow downs.
When I was unchecking things, I noticed there were a lot of accounts that don’t
actually have anything in them, email addresses I use but don’t use contacts
from. My guess is that one of those accounts, a mix of google and yahoo
accounts, was spinning its wheels when the Contacts app tried to talk to it.
On Jan 25, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you are only having problems with contacts, just turn off contacts.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Jan 25, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is it best to cut myself off fromiCloud completely, or just kill the
connection for Contacts?
Ian
On Jan 25, 2016, at 1:12 PM, John Panarese <jpanarese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, good point. I would sign out of iCloud completely on the Mac and sign
back in if that hasn’t been tried. Again, I’m coming in late and I
apologize for duplicating anyone’s suggestions or stating the obvious.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com
APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer
AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
On Jan 25, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Before you try that, are you absolutely sure this isn't the result of some
problem between your Mac contacts and your iCloud contacts? I would tend
to have doubts that it is the actual application that is the problem
though of course that is possible. I also don't really think you can
uninstall and reinstall the application itself.
If your contacts are also in the cloud and on an i-device, and if you
haven't tried this yet, you might turn off Contacts for your Mac and allow
all of them to be deleted from your Mac. They would still be in the cloud
and on your i-devices. Then as an experiment, enter just a few contacts on
your mac and see if it is now useable for you. Of course if contacts is
empty and you still get busy signals, you won't be able to do this. If
this works, though, you could then delete the experimental contacts and
turn contacts on again and see if your problem is solved when the contacts
reappear on your Mac. If the problem reappears, you might try the more
radical step, which i have done before for reasons quite different from
your problem. You make sure you have all your contacts saved in a form you
can read. Then you turn off contacts on all devices and allow them to be
deleted from all devices including your Mac. then you re-enter the
contacts (I did this on the mac) and turn contacts back on on the Mac
first and then on other devices. it's a pain and I used it only when I had
duplicates I couldn't get rid of any other way but it worked for that. I
realize your problem is quite different though.
The other thing you could try, if you haven't already, is resetting your
voiceover preferences, but if it's only this one application I have my
doubts as to whether this is the problem. However, that's a lot less
complicated than what I've written above.
Beyond these suggestions, I would contact Apple. Hard to tell if this is
an accessibility problem or a general Mac problem. if you turn voiceover
off, does it work okay for a sighted person? I guess that would be the
indicator as to whether it's an accessibility issue or at least a
voiceover issue.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Jan 25, 2016, at 1:43 PM, Ian Edwards <ianedwards42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In my ongoing battle with Contacts being unusable on my Mac, I’m now
wondering if it is possible to uninstall and reinstall just the contacts
app. It shows up as an application in the applications folder, but where
would I get the new one to install?
My big worry is that Contacts is some kind of core service and taking it
away will break something important.
Ian
Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.
//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to
macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web
interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
