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
Force Spotlight to reindex your drive. This should bring the Spotlight index up to date.
Posted on Jul 28, 2016 6:17 PM