Bug 2888

Summary:	Cannot access addresses
Product:	Claws Mail (GTK 2)	Reporter:	Paul Roge <proge>
Component:	UI/Address Book	Assignee:	users
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.8.1
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Paul Roge 2013-03-07 03:00:27 UTC

Hello,

When opening claws-mail, a warning popped up saying that the address book database could not be opened. It was a surprise to me since I haven't modified the address book in a while. My contacts disappeared from the address book UI, but they are still located in the directory ~/.claws-mail/addrbook/

How to rebuild the addressbook database or otherwise restore contacts?

thanks,
Paul

Comment 1 Paul 2013-03-07 10:53:39 UTC

If possible, please quote the exact warning message.

Comment 2 Paul Roge 2013-03-07 15:39:49 UTC

yes, unfortunately I lost the warning message. In any case, I resolved the problem by copying the xml files to a different directory and then moving those that contained contact back in one by one. I also realized that more than just the contacts were affected: all the plugins were disabled and I lost the configuration of one email account. Apologies for a lack of detail on this one!