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Contacts duplicate in spotlight search

Hi there, I googled for this but it seems that I didn't find anything.

I got a Mobile Me account and my 3GS iPhone is synced with that, on iTunes contacts syncing is turned off and I got only one record for each one in Contacts, so it's ok here, but when I search for a contact on iPhone spotlight it finds two record for each of the person I'm searching for, the same records: one has got the contact icon on the left, the other not.

I tried stopping mobile me syncing, I synced then with iTunes (contacts sync still off), the contacts has been deleted then I tried searching on spotlight and it could still find the records!!! I waited for about ten minutes but nothing happened.

I restored mobile me syncing, contacts reappeared and the problem with duplicate contacts in spotlight is always there.

Any suggestion?

Thanx
Fabrizio

Macbook 2GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.2), iPhone 3GS

Posted on Jan 20, 2010 1:21 AM

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Jan 28, 2010 2:57 AM in response to FabGau

Just to close the topic.

I fixed deleting every SINGLE CONTACT from spotlight, then I deleted what I had on Mobile Me (contacts), I synced the iPhone contacts via iTunes and checked off the syncing.

Started again syncing with Mobile Me (both on Macbook and iPhone) and now everything seems to work fine.

So annoying.

See you.

Fabrizio

Contacts duplicate in spotlight search

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