When I look up at the screen to see what the Mac decided to put in, it shows only John Smith. Most of the time (about 75%) if I start typing in johnsmith, the mail will automatically fill in But sometimes it randomly fills in I am not a touch typist, so I look at the keyboard when I am typing in the address johnsmith, and then I hit Enter. I write to John Smith several times a day. As someone else said on this list, Apple says that as long as you have ANY EMAILS on your computer that came from or were sent to the old address, you cannot depend on the new email to be the one that the mail uses.

Not only does Mac Mail continue to show the old email as a suggestion - I could live with that - but it seems randomly to select the old email even though the new email is at the top and highlighted. Okay, I have tried everything on this list, and nothing works. In my case I also had to get rid of some files in the user library.ĭelete the files in /Users/YOUR_USERNAME/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/ that start with MailRecents* and restart Mail. That is providing iCloud is your one and ONLY source of your Contacts (check the Internet Account settings in the System Preferences), otherwise you have to check e.g. The advantage is that once you have done that, all your Apple devices that sync to iCloud are up to date. This can be done on any device that logs in to your iCloud accoun, so this can be your Contacts application on you Mac, you iOS or iPadOS device, or alternatively you can even log into on any browser and go to Contacts and to it from there.

Now, there might ALSO be some redundant email addresses stores in iCloud, to get rid of those you have to edit every contact one by one and check what needs to be deleted. I got rid of everything here, nice and clean restart. To get rid of the Mac ones as explained before: In Mail in the menu bar got to Window > Previous Recipients and get rid of the addresses you like. The thing is, there are redundant email addresses that are stored locally on your Mac and on iCloud.

Clear the spark for mac address book