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Mulongo oyo etiyamaki na archive. Tuna motuna mosusu soki osengeli na lisalisi

I would like to eliminate all filters and begin anew. What file/folder do I need to delete?

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htcb08
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Filters are not working correctly and I have reconfigured several individual filters to try to get them to work. I am willing to restart from scratch but do not want to delete 40-50 filters individually if there is a folder I can easily access and delete.

Filters are not working correctly and I have reconfigured several individual filters to try to get them to work. I am willing to restart from scratch but do not want to delete 40-50 filters individually if there is a folder I can easily access and delete.

Solution eye eponami

you clearly have not located all instances of msgFilterRules.dat.

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Zenos
Zenos
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Close Thunderbird, find your profile and look for files named msgFilterRules.dat.

There will be one for each email account that has had filters set up.

htcb08
htcb08 Nkolo motuna
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I have found all four profiles and marked all four as "dat.old"

The filters still show up. Do I actually delete the folders/files?

Matt
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Solution eye oponami

you clearly have not located all instances of msgFilterRules.dat.

htcb08
htcb08 Nkolo motuna
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Thanks. I copied all msgFilterRules.dat files, then deleted them. I have started over, but find that some of the filters still do not work as they used to work. I'm still working - slowly - on trying to find a solution. The solution may end up being to abandon my good friend Eudora/Thunderbird for something else.