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message filters have stopped working. Says "folder in use"

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since the latest upgrade some (not all) of my message filters have stopped working. I get the error message "The operation failed because another operation is using the folder. Please wait for that operation to finish and then try again." But as far as I know no other program is using these folders. I have tried stopping Thunderbird various ways including thru task manager. After a restart all behaves the same.

since the latest upgrade some (not all) of my message filters have stopped working. I get the error message "The operation failed because another operation is using the folder. Please wait for that operation to finish and then try again." But as far as I know no other program is using these folders. I have tried stopping Thunderbird various ways including thru task manager. After a restart all behaves the same.

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Marty, what version are you currently running?