[Users] Addressbook empty

Andreas Meyer anmeyer at mailbox.org
Mon Apr 20 21:37:35 CEST 2015


Hello!

Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> schrieb am 20.04.15 um 18:34:16 Uhr:

> On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:10:08 +0200
> Andreas Meyer <anmeyer at mailbox.org> wrote:
> 
> > The BackUp I have looks the same. How do I get the addressbook back?
> 
> First of all copy all the addrbook*.bak files somewhere as a safe
> backup, in your user directory under another sub-directory would be a
> good place.
> 
> Next shut down CM in a controlled fashion.
> 
> Copy the saved files from before (the ones in your user sub-directory)
> into ~/.claws-mail/addrbook and rename them all by removing the *.bak
> extension.
> 
> Restart CM, check your address books are back.

That did not help. I don't get that warning about the addressbook
at startup anymore. but the addresses are not there.

The file addrbook-000001.xml seems to be what I need, but how will
claws-mail read it?

  Andreas



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