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how to transfer message filters to another computer

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New computer. TBird successfully installed and email working. However, my message filters did not migrate from old to new computer. How do I do this?

New computer. TBird successfully installed and email working. However, my message filters did not migrate from old to new computer. How do I do this?

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Dare I say it. New computer them move your old profile. I really have issues with folks setting up new accounts and then going oops no contacts. oops where are the filters.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer

You can move your msgFilterRules.dat files (one per account). but they may not work as they once did as the account types may not even be the same.