Autofill uses email removed from my contact card

Hi Carolyn,

Thank you for your quick reply! I tried that and it still determinedly puts the wrong email address in! Grrr. When I look in Keychain it says the password -- and that's all that's shown is a password -- is stored in "PersonalFormsAutoFillDatabase". Searching in HoudaSpot, which will look within Libraries, I can't find any such file. I'm guessing that a file with a new name but a similar function exists, but I still don't know what is and isn't a good idea to throw away to fix this rather than throw away to cause myself more work!

Any further thoughts?

Gretchen

AHHHHH, now it's filling in the wrong email address even when more information is required! That situation, for some unknown reason, used to at least use the correct email address.

Hi Carolyn,

Thank you again, and I'm sorry to say that rather amazingly, neither of those removals (complete with emptying the trash and restarts) did diddly squat for this problem! I'm guessing it is perhaps lodged in iCloud somewhere since this problem shows up on my other Mac too?? I looked at Safari autofill prefs with Pref Setter, but all it has was the fact that I have autofill turned on and it's boolean. HOWEVER I just looked in Contacts on iCloud and it did have the wrong email address, but that was 10 down on my email address list with the tag "NOT" on it. I removed it, and now rather than using my @mac.com address which is the first one listed, tagged as Home, the autofill is using the second address, @icloud.com, which is tagged as Other! I just asked my partner if he has problems with this, and he said he stopped using it becomes it always put in his evernote address, which is about 7th in his list!

iCloud neurosis?

ciao,

Gretchen

Hi Carolyn,

This is insanity! I trashed my existing contacts card, started a new one, and as long as I only put in one email address, all is well, when I begin to add others, autofill seems to randomly switch to say my gmail address, even though it's third down on the list. Any idea of where the underlying problem might be?

Thanks,

Gretchen

Thanks Rick, I might try that! I've got it pretty stripped down right now, but autofill seems to have gone into a complete snit and is currently not working despite being set to work, the minimalist card chosen as my card, two restarts, etc. I might need to dump the cache, prefs, and restart again, though I have the feeling that the problem is sitting deep in iCloud since changing the card on iCloud.com brought about the quickest changes in its response.