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When I search for a contact in Spotlight (Cmd-Space), the correct contacts show.
When I select a contact (Enter), Address Book opens, but it has no contact selected. I have to look for the same contact again, this time in Address Book.
I use this all the time and am certain it used to work. Have tried rebuilding Spotlight index by removing Address Book from Spotlight and re-adding it.
Anyone else have this issue? Any suggestions for a fix?
Do you have a Time Machine drive connected at the time of the search? It might be searching in your Mac and in your /TimeMachine at the same time.
UPDATE: Since you mention that you don’t have a TimeMachine (or that it doesn’t affect results), I recommend that you rebuild your spotlight index completely from scratch. You mention that you’ve done that, but not how, so, please try to follow the steps in this question, and after you leave your spotlight reindexing all night undisturbed (best way to guarantee that the index ends up being “ok”), let us know if you’re still getting double results.
Might you be having a copy of your address book somewhere else?
Let us know how it goes with a plain new index.
It appears Spotlight does not make use of Address Book plug-ins.
Extra menu items added by Skype also fail to appear in the Spotlight preview.
It is worth providing feedback to Apple asking for this functionality to be added. It would greatly improve Spotlight.
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I resolved it by brute force.
Presto, it's working again. I hope it keeps working.