[Users] address book error in claws 3.13.2

[Dave Stevens]

no address book functionality, error message as per screenshot attached
on startup and this in the folder:

 ~/.claws-mail/addrbook $ ll
total 1164
drwxr-xr-x  3 dave dave   4096 Jan 22 13:02 ./
drwx------ 13 dave dave   4096 Jan 22 13:04 ../
-rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave   1821 Oct 20 19:51 456998267.png
-rw-r--r--  1 dave dave   1707 Apr  2  2016 456998366.png
-rw-r--r--  1 dave dave    593 Mar 12  2017 456998787.png
-rw-------  1 dave dave 105416 Jan 18 15:15 addrbook-000001.xml
-rw-------  1 dave dave 105162 Jan 18 14:36 addrbook-000001.xml.bak
-rw-r--r--  1 dave dave     98 Sep 25  2015 addrbook-000002.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 dave dave 233266 Feb  8  2016 addrbook-000003.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 dave dave 233266 Feb  8  2016 addrbook-000004.xml
-rw-------  1 dave dave 233473 Jul 13  2017 addrbook-000005.xml
-rw-------  1 dave dave 233464 Jul 13  2017 addrbook-000005.xml.bak
-rw-r--r--  1 dave dave    811 Apr  4  2016 addrbook-000006.xml
-rw-------  1 dave dave      0 Jan 22 08:14 addrbook--index.xml
-rw-------  1 dave dave    425 Jan 21 16:57 addrbook--index.xml.bak
-rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave     94 Jan 22 13:02 attributesrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 dave dave   4096 Feb  5  2018 oldfilesonmarch032016/

ideas? more diagnostics?

Dave
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