[Users] Addressbook empty

[Andreas Meyer]

Andreas Meyer <anmeyer at mailbox.org> schrieb am 20.04.15 um 21:37:35 Uhr:

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

> > 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?

I found an older backup and copied the addrbook--index.xml back to
the addrbook folder and got the book back again.
I don't know what the indexfile changed, the book_list was empty.

  Andreas