[Users] Moving AddressBook from system to system? - SUCCESS!

[Csányi Pál]

Hi Cia,

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:39:48 -0700 -n
Cia Watson <ciamarie at my180.net> írta:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:07:31 +0200
> Csányi Pál <csanyipal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > The address book files are in ~/.claws-mail/addrbook/ and you
> > > seem to be saying that you copied this directory. 
> > 
> > Yes, exactly.
> > 
> > > I don't know what can be missing, what does the directory contain?
> 
> > 
> > However, after I copy the previous addrbook--index.xml file from
> > Debian $HOME/.claws-mail/addrbook into new location here on
> > Ubuntu and overwrite the 'existing' addrbook--index.xml here, and
> > open the AddressBook, I can't see Addresses that I should to see.
> 
> I would suggest, in case you didn't do it this way, to close
> claws-mail and then copy over the previous ~/.claws-mail/addrbook
> files to the new location, then re-open claws mail to see if the
> addresses are in there.

Success!!

> I think if you copy them over while claws is running, it doesn't
> 'refresh' even though it has new information to work with.

Indeed, that was happen.

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