On 04/24/2015 12:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: <<>> > all of your account info is in the prefs.js file.. that will > give you some idea.. while such is true, it only applies to default changes. not _all_ of account info is in prefs.js. see; http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prefs.js_file something i should have mentioned, is that i removed 2 account names by prepending a period to the account names. the are not shown in the left pane, the account names are still in the prefs.js file. > The file is named |msgFilterRules.dat| correct. it is in files directory of _each_ account. which is why when "Message filters" is opened, "Filters for:" has a drop down selection. > To back up all the filters, do the following: > > * Close all instances of Thunderbird > * Copy the file |msgFilterRules.dat| to a backup location. > > To restore the file, to the following: > > * Close all instances of Thunderbird > * Copy the file |msgFilterRules.dat| back into your (possibly new) > profile folder such can be eliminated by prepending a period to file. and a suffix number, or date stamp as number to file, if accumulation is desired. > Under any normal Linux distro the path probably is like this: > > |/home/<username>/.thunderbird/Profiles/<profile>/ImapMail/ \ > <mailserver>/msgFilterRules.dat| are you saying that CentOS is not normal? because i have; /home/geo/.thunderbird/lihsqjai.default/Mail/inbound.att.net as path to one of my email accounts. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
