
(Maybe not the most elegant solution, but this is the option I have been using - and it saved my sanity when I discovered the problem.) Create new Contacts using your iPad or iPhone and these then sync back to the Mac, where you can then edit the Contact Card to your heart’s content.


I checked the Apple support forums and there’s lots of reports of the same issue. It seems I’m not alone in having this problem. We use a Gmail account for our shared business contacts and the issue seems to be related to Gmail accounts. I can edit existing Contact records, but I just cannot create them on my Mac. I’d be part way through creating a new Contact in the Contacts app, and the screen would suddenly refresh to an existing Contact - and the one I was creating just vanished! If I did get to finish entry (for example, if I just entered a first and last name and the Done), the new Contact would appear in the list briefly, but disappear again after a few seconds.Īt first, I thought I was hitting some strange key combination, or that I was doing something else wrong. Now you can easily select all the ones that are not in your address book and add them to your address book.After upgrading to Mac OS High Sierra, I noticed that I became unable to create new Contact records on my Mac. This will group all of the emails in your address book and group all the emails NOT in your address book. But MORE important in your case is that you can sort by clicking the blank area before Name.

Also, important to note is that you can sort them by clicking on “Name”, “Email”, etc. Using the command key you can select the ones you want (and skip addresses) or use Shift to grab a bunch in a row. The ones that are in your address book have a little address book icon next to them. You can launch your Mail app and then navigate to Window –> Previous Recipients and get a list and add them to your address book. I desire to get those addresses in my contacts file or download them in some way so I can add them to my email blast list. I know there are email addresses that my Mail program recognizes and will auto populate when I begin typing them that are not in my contacts.
