Multiple appearances of contact records

[binarysmurf]

If I search for myself using Alfred, my contact record appears 4 times. How do I just make it appear once, which is what I would expect.

Spotlight does the same - do I need to rebuild my indexes?

[Vero]

@binarysmurf Try pressing the right arrow on each of those results. Odds are you'll find that they're located in different places on your Mac (e.g. some could be random vcards on your Mac, or backups). Alternatively, if you've imported contacts from many sources, it's possible that there are simply duplicates in your Address Book itself.

 

Once you work out where the contacts are, you can then either delete the random ones so that only the one located in the AddressBook folder on your Mac remains, tell Spotlight to ignore any backup folders by dragging them to Spotlight Privacy.

 

Let me know how you get on

 

Cheers,
Vero