[Users] Claws Mail is not accessing my address book

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:40:27 +0000, John G Walker via Users wrote:

> Claws mail has stopped accessing my address book.
>
> The directory addrbook is present in .claws-mail in my home directory,
> and all the subsidiary address books are present in it. But when I try
> to access my addresses via Tools in the Claws mail menu are the books
> Common Addresses and Personal Addresses, which both display as empty.
>
> I can't see anything else wrong with .claws-mail, but I'm not sure
> what should be in there.
>
> Any suggestions as to what I should do next? And, yes, I've tried
> restarting and rebooting,

How about showing the output of

  ls -laZ ~/.claws-mail/addrbook/

and the debug output of

  claws-mail -d

?

Particularly the addrbook directory may be filled with files and backup
files, too, but add a plausibility check. What do the XML files contain?
Do they seem valid as in "do they contain addresses and information" you
are missing?