[Users] Missing (or maybe not) address books

[John G Walker]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:39:59 +0000 John G Walker via Users
<users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> For some reason Claws Mail has suddenly stopped recognising the
> existence of my address books, despite the fact that they are still
> there.
> 
> What do I do to reconnect email client and address books?
> 

Sorted!

The address books are held in a file called addrbook--index.xml, and it
was this that contained a couple of blank address books. However, I
found another file sitting next to it in the same directory called
addrbook--index.backup.xml containing all my addresses. So it was
simple case of renaming and restarting Claws Mail.

I've been wondering what happened to cause this glitch, and the only
thing I can think of is my attempt to search for an email from a
friend. Her email was automatically put into a certain folder because
of the address book her address is held in. So I know the address
books were okay when her email was received. 

For various reasons I wanted her email filed in another folder, so I 
dragged it and accidentally dropped it in the wrong folder. But I
didn't know which wrong folder, so I attempted, unsuccessfully, to get
Claws Mail to search for it. 

I think it was my ham-fisted attempts to get Claws Mail to do a search
across multiple folders that might have caused the problem. Whatever it
was, I think there's a bug there somewhere.

I eventually found the email manually, btw,

-- 
 All the best,
 John