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Q: Spotlight Returns Invalid Contact - How Can I Delete It?

Spotlight works as expected except one scenario.  It appears to display long ago deleted contacts & I want it to stop!  For example, a Spotlight search for "daily" returns a Top Hit result for Contact "Chris Daily".  I do not want to see this contact.  I want to delete this contact.  In fact, I feel like I deleted this contact a long time ago.

 

If I select "Chris Daily" from Spotlight search, it opens Contacts v 9.10.

But Chris Daily does not exist, so it actually opens the next alphabetically listed contact "Jay DeNiro".

If I delete "Jay DeNiro", it selects the next contact instead when I repeat experiment.

Chris Daily is not a contact.

 

Contacts>Preferences>Accounts shows 4 CardDAV entries but only iCloud has "Enable this account" checkbox checked.  The other 3 accounts are not checked, but I also think that Chris Daily was only stored as an iCloud contact in the past.  The disabled accounts are Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn.  This person was never a contact in those apps, only in my iPhone.

 

How do I get rid of this result from Spotlight? 

It is consistently a Top Hit for my "daily" search - but should not be there at all.

Mac mini (Late 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Jul 28, 2016 2:07 PM

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