New smart mailbox is missing after Mail restart

Mail Version 7.1 (1827)
Create new smart mailbox. Quit Mail. Restart Mail. New smart mailbox is missing.

Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* A folder window should open. From that folder, move the following files to the Desktop:
SmartMailboxesLocalProperties.plist
SyncedSmartMailboxes.plist
Test. If Mail now works, delete the files you moved and recreate your smart mailboxes, if necessary. Otherwise put the files back where they were, overwriting any that may have created in their place.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

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WHAT DIDNT WORK for me:
I have the problem, but I never had Docs & Data switched on, so Sheppard's solution does not apply for my case (there are no such files as mentioned there). Neither did Beda's move work for me. Causing fresh copies of the two files he mentioned to be created does bring back the Smart Mailbox category and a default Today smart mailbox, but putting the original files back in position, puts the problem back to square one -- no smartmailboxes appear.
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What I found worked was moving smartmailbox specifications from SmartMailboxes.plist into a clean SyncedSmartMailboxes.plist file.
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0) Before starting, check this file and confirm your smart mailbox specifications are actually still in there. If not, this won't work.
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1) Taking a tip from Beda, move the following files out and then launch Mail and quit it, to force creation of new copies of these files.
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