Ethereal-users: Re: [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:?
Unfortunately, the only way to override the current behavior of 0.8.20
is to put your home directory somewhere else (or to have your system
administrator do so, if that setting comes from information on some
server).
> I never told it to use U:.
Your home directory is probably there. Current Ethereal releases
attempt to save your configuration files (including filter files) in a
".ethereal" subdirectory of your home directory on both Windows and
UNIX; the next release will continue to store them there on UNIX (as
that's the right place on UNIX), but will store them in an "Ethereal"
subdirectory of your "application data" directory (which is typically
the "Application Data" subdirectory of your profile directory) on
Windows (as that's the right place on Windows).
