Wireshark · Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] RE: Getting "could not save to your capture filter file"

[jeanne_gaskill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I had the same problem not very long ago.  If your homedrive and appdata 
lines are not set to a drive that you have write permissions, you will not 
be able to save any of your filters.

Go to the command prompt and type "set" and hit the enter key.  If your 
home drive and/or appdata paths are set to the u drive, you can try 
changing them manually by typing:

set APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\jgaskill\Application Data

or

set HOMEDRIVE=c:

changing the pathing so that it is appropriate for your system. 

If the parameters keep resetting themselves, your homedrive information 
has been set to the network drive by your network administrator.  Try 
talking to them, they may be willing to change this for you, especially if 
you need to use Ethereal as part of your job.  My administrators set it to 
the network drive by default.  But, since they were not using this for 
anything, they were perfectly happy to change the setting to my C drive to 
allow me to run this application.

I hope this helps.

Jeanne


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<<Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:36:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Trebor Sreyb <tsreyb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ethereal-users] Getting "could not save to your capture filter 
file"

In ethereal 0.8.20 on W2K, I cannot save my filter capture file, always 
getting the message:

  Could not save to your capture filter file
  "U:/.ethereal/cfilters": No such file or directory

Problem is, U: is a mapped network drive to which I have no write access, 
it is read-only. How can I inform ethereal to use C: instead of U:? 

I never told it to use U:. Ethereal is installed on C: (in c:\program 
files\ethereal), and the program shortcut properties has its "Start in:" 
field set to "C:\Program Files\Ethereal"