How can I copy filters between accounts?

I seem to remember, back when I first switched my email to Thunderbird about two years ago, that I could duplicate message filters between email accounts rather than recreating them manually. Now I cannot find any way to do this. I'm reinstalling everything on my system, and while I copied my Thunderbird folder in its entirety from my backup, the filters carried over on only my primary account; my other accounts have no filters attached to them.
I have nine different email accounts set up in Thunderbird (and no, I cannot consolidate them or forward some of them into another, as these need to remain separate for a variety of reasons), and about half of my filters should run on all nine accounts (they apply color-coded tags based on source and keywords). I tried a filter import-export extension, but it wouldn't import anything. And I really don't want to manually recreate two dozen filters across nine accounts, one filter at a time.
If I can't copy or duplicate the filters from within Thunderbird, is it possible to go into the file system and copy individual files within the Thunderbird folder to accomplish the same result? I haven't identified anything in that folder that would allow this, but that doesn't mean it's not there—only that I don't know how filters are stored.
Suggestion for a future revision: Change filter management so that multiple accounts can use the same filter without having to duplicate anything. You can have a master filter list where you set up the actual filters, and each email account has a window where you choose which filters that account uses and what order they run in for that account. I can envision exactly how it should look and work, but I don't have the programming skills to write it myself, either as an extension or for inclusion into the main codebase. (I'm not even sure the way I would want this to work can be done as an extension, as it seems to me it would require a deep under-the-hood change in how filters and accounts are matched.) I'd be happy to provide interface mock-ups and detailed descriptions of the desired functionality, if there's someone interested in doing the actual coding.

Yes you can,
The filter-files are in your "profile"\mail\"account"\
and in "profile"\imapmail\"account"\ and are named msgFilterRules.dat
You can open it in a texteditor (Notetab) and edit or you can copy from one account to next. Be a bit careful so you dont use filters where you dont want to.

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