[Users] NOOB question sorry: cannot get AddressKeeper to work...

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:22:48 +0100
Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 05:54:10PM +0100, RW at Gmail wrote:
> > Sorry for maybe asking a very silly question, but I just can't make
> > it work:
> > 
> > Having installed the AddressKeeper plugin, I have to name a folder
> > in the settings of the AddressKeeper plugin.
> > 
> > What does this need to be? Is it the name of an Addressbook folder?
> > Or is it the name of the folder in which the Addressbook is on my
> > disk, in my case "~/.claws-mail/addrbook/". Have thoroughly
> > searched the internet for help without success....
> > 
> > I hope you guys can help me with this.
> 
> Isn't it obvious from the title of the dialog which appears when
> you click the “Select...” button next to that folder entry?
> 
> In case it's not: the former.

I'm new to Claws too, fortunately I had no issues with this plugin. The
preferences dialog asked to chose an addressbook.

I decided to chose one of the too mentioned addressbooks and it works.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl ~/.claws-mail/addrbook/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse  22K Nov  8
11:38 /home/rocketmouse/.claws-mail/addrbook/417409462.png -rw------- 1
rocketmouse rocketmouse   96 Oct 29
18:53 /home/rocketmouse/.claws-mail/addrbook/addrbook-000001.xml
-rw------- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 3.7K Nov 11
18:23 /home/rocketmouse/.claws-mail/addrbook/addrbook-000002.xml
-rw------- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 3.4K Nov 11
18:20 /home/rocketmouse/.claws-mail/addrbook/addrbook-000002.xml.bak
-rw------- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse  321 Nov 11
18:23 /home/rocketmouse/.claws-mail/addrbook/addrbook--index.xml
-rw------- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse  321 Nov 11
18:23 /home/rocketmouse/.claws-mail/addrbook/addrbook--index.xml.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse   94 Nov 11
14:14 /home/rocketmouse/.claws-mail/addrbook/attributesrc