Trouble with Contacts (address book)

Dear Apple Community: I have problems with Contacts. When I open up Contacts there is noting there and noting works like adding a new contact or group; it's like it's locked up somehow. I always try to find answers myself before asking the Apple Community. I Found a U-Tube video explaining how to fix a problem similar to mine. It told to reimport your Contact data base, but my import menu item is grayed out. Any ideas of how I can fix my Contact app? Is there something is Library that might be corrupted that I can throw away? Thank you!

In Finder hold down the option key while selecting the Go menu. Select your library. Go to Preferences/com.apple.Addressbook.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got them from, overwriting the newer ones.

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