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Message rules all vanished tonight, where are they stored?

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Header says it all. I opened Thunderbird tonight, and it gave me an error message that said my message rules had been removed. How do I get them back?

Header says it all. I opened Thunderbird tonight, and it gave me an error message that said my message rules had been removed. How do I get them back?

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Sorry for the delay in responding. I was able to recover everything but that day's e-mails by accessing my daily backup emergency drive, and copying the entire thing (over 1.3 million files) to a new drive, as the original one was overheating and causing all kinds of errors.

Windows 8.1, and the version of Thunderbird is 38.5.0.

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I also just realized that several extremely critical e-mail folders have vanished. I must have them back immediately.

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AND.........now all the e-mails I received today, which should have gone into their individual folders (which have all vanished) have also vanished. What the hell is going on here???

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Okay, I did a scan disk and repair, and I managed to get the folders back. But the e-mails that came in today are still missing. And so are all my message filters. Where are those being stored, so I can recover them?

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Message Filter rules are stored in files named MsgFilterRules.dat, one per account.

It would be useful to know which version of Thunderbird you're using and on what platform.

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Sorry for the delay in responding. I was able to recover everything but that day's e-mails by accessing my daily backup emergency drive, and copying the entire thing (over 1.3 million files) to a new drive, as the original one was overheating and causing all kinds of errors.

Windows 8.1, and the version of Thunderbird is 38.5.0.