Multiple CardDav accounts, can't delete

Hi everyone,
On my MacBook Pro, iPad and Samsung phone actually I keep all the calendar and contacts sync through a same account of Gmail.
With new OS X releases I usually format all my hardrive and later restore part of all the content with Time Machine. I guess when I used to only sync my data through and Apple account (iCloud) my same Mac needed to store some users accounts locally and for some reason old records are kept and can't be deleted.
All the information of the records I want to delete are empty, in my case in the Gmail account if I deselect to sync contacts they don't appear on the address book (what I want), but for some reason around my data there was files of old contacts as if I wanted to store them, not on the "cloud".
Someone with similar problems?
Thank you very much.

You can't delete it. It's there for temporary use by visitors and its contents are deleted when they log out, and it's a built-in part of the system.

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