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Thunderbird doesn’t recognize the symbolic link to msgFilterRules.dat on Windows 7

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john_smith
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I want to make message filters synchronizing over Dropbox. For this I have put msgFilterRules.dat in Dropbox folder and in my Thunderbird profile folder made symbolic link. I can open symbolic link in notepad. But when Thunderbird starts it creates new empty list of rules. How to fix?

Thunderbird 52.4.0 (32-bit), Windows 7 Ultimate x64

I want to make message filters synchronizing over Dropbox. For this I have put msgFilterRules.dat in Dropbox folder and in my Thunderbird profile folder made symbolic link. I can open symbolic link in notepad. But when Thunderbird starts it creates new empty list of rules. How to fix? Thunderbird 52.4.0 (32-bit), Windows 7 Ultimate x64

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Wayne Mery
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You can't fix.

Don't do this.