[Users] CM crashed and burned

[Duke Normandin]

> remove all in $HOME/.claws-mail/ (or move it
> somewhere else for backup reasons).

I'll try that and see what happens.
All the error windows were about "permission denied" - can't read various
xml files. It asked me if I wanted to use a recent .bak file - I said sure!
But it couldn't read it either.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net>
wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:42:43 -0700, Duke Normandin wrote:
>
> > > Whatever has gone wrong can only be
> > > solved by restoring working files below $HOME/.claws-mail/
> >
> > Meaning what exactly? What working files?
>
> Well, as you can see, there are several backup files in there. So,
> depending
> on what errors you have had, you could revert affected files to their older
> backup copy. Or you could (re)move files somewhere else temporarily while
> figuring out which files cause CM to fail.
>
> Also, for the case of starting from scratch and configuring everything
> in CM _again_, you could remove all in $HOME/.claws-mail/ (or move it
> somewhere else for backup reasons).
>
>
> But you've not told what errors you've had, only:
>
> > a bunch of screens about something being wrong with the
> > addressbook, and something else about not being able to
> > read the folderlist
>
> Failure/errors while starting CM can also be caused by bugs in
> updatedupgraded
> external libraries CM depends on, for example.
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duke