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"