[Users] Problem with CM address Book-Paul or Colin?

[Pierre Fortin]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:29:52 -0800 Thomas Taylor wrote:

>On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:14:13 -0800
>Thomas Taylor <linxt at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Fellow Clawsers;
>> In Claws-Mail 3.8.0 under openSuSE 12.2-M1 (beta version), my address
>> book had a problem and it seemed as though I had lost all the
>> addresses.  Upon further inspection, The address book showed no
>> entries so I went back through my folders and rebuilt an address book
>> although it doesn't contain the entire list.
>> 
>> In the ./claws-mail/addrbook I see several versions of address book
>> entries with a .xml suffix.  Some of these should contain a valid
>> address book.  The problem, how do I revert to one of these older
>> versions?  I found menu items for importing various formats but
>> not .xml format.  Should I modify (after saving) the addrbook-index to
>> show one of the earlier versions?  I don't want to do something that
>> would cause even greater problems.
>> 
>> Thanks, Tom
>> 
>
>Any input on this?

Just a WAG...

  close CM
  cd ~/.claws-mail
  mv addressbook.xml addressbook.xml.incomplete
  cp -a addrbook/addrbook-0000xx.xml addressbook.xml
  start CM

Just undo if that doesn't work.

HTH
Pierre