When does Thunderbird save Message Filters?
I spent a lot of time setting up a bunch of message filters and organizing messages into folders. I had created about twenty filters, and was running them and moving messages, etc.
My computer crashed due to a flaky display card (intermittent, but happens infrequently, so not corrected yet.) The only recovery possible is turn the power off and restart the PC. When I restarted Thunderbird, all my filters were gone. I have pretty good "save your work often" discipline, so I thought I was covered once the filters appear in the "Message filters" dialog. I don't see any option to explicitly "Save Filters", but it is possible I am missing it somehow.
How and when does Thunderbird save these? Is there something I need to explicitly do? Close and reopen the filter window? Exit Thunderbird?
Also related: Can Message Filters be exported and imported?
Running Thunderbird SUPERNOVA 115.10.1 (32-bit) on Windows 7 Professional. I'm seeing an update to 116.0 is offered now.
Thanks for any advice.
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Thank you for the information. I really want to know what I need to do to be sure Thunderbird remembers my filters after I set them up. I leave it running all the time, and I assumed the filters were saved, because I was using them. There is no "Save" button on the Message Filters" dialog, so I assumed the were saved after they were entered and accepted.
Something unexpected happened, and the computer was shut down improperly, and the filters did not propagate to the next session. I'm really looking for a way to NOT lose important work again, so I am trying to get insight into WHEN Thunderbird writes these files in storage, so they will appear when the program is next run.
I don't really like the idea that I need to close Thunderbird after updating message filters, but if that's what is necessary, I would like to know that, so if anyone knows, please weigh in..
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They are saved in a file named msgfilterrules.dat, one within each account. Users have had some success in copying them and, to a degree, they can be edited. I think the final 115 release is 115.18 and no 116 is available. 115.18 is the final release for windows 7.
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Thank you for the information. I really want to know what I need to do to be sure Thunderbird remembers my filters after I set them up. I leave it running all the time, and I assumed the filters were saved, because I was using them. There is no "Save" button on the Message Filters" dialog, so I assumed the were saved after they were entered and accepted.
Something unexpected happened, and the computer was shut down improperly, and the filters did not propagate to the next session. I'm really looking for a way to NOT lose important work again, so I am trying to get insight into WHEN Thunderbird writes these files in storage, so they will appear when the program is next run.
I don't really like the idea that I need to close Thunderbird after updating message filters, but if that's what is necessary, I would like to know that, so if anyone knows, please weigh in..
Tested and verified: filters aren't saved until you fully exit the Message Filters screen, which you must have had open at the time of the crash.
This is exactly what I was hoping to hear. Simple and easy. Thank you.
I did in fact have it open before the crash.
I know better now. I appreciate the confirmation.
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