Thunderbird - All message filters missing after recent upgrades.

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No idea what has happened or when as I have not used this machine for a few days and there was a stack of updates required but when I opened Thunderbird today all my message filters had gone.
Any idea where I might find them?
The filters are still present and working in another machine. What file do I have to copy over to put the filters back into the broken system please?
Many thanks,
Budge.

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Each mailbox has it’s own rules file, named “msgFilterRules.dat”, located within the TB profile directory below “mail”

for example …/mail/mailbox-name/msgFilterRules.dat

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Hi Paul,
Not as simple as that it seems. I have this:-

/home/alastair/.thunderbird/a3nxxxxx.default/Mail/Local Folders/

but the file has only to lines with a total of 25B.
I was looking in wrong place but found them now thanks. They were in ImapMail and there are several but only two with kBs of data.
Many thanks.
Budge.

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My filters are located at:

...........\foxxxxxx.default\Mail\Local Folders\msgFilterRules.dat

but be aware that POP and the local account are under …\Mail… but IMAP accounts are …\ImapMail… and that the filters are on an per account basis.