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
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