Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.9.0 Binaries for Win32 (Win 9x)

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:41:31 -0800 (PST)
> If there is no user's profile directory,

Just out of curiosity, if there isn't a user profile directory, where do
applications with per-user configuration files store those files?

> the new version ethereal 0.9.0
> tries to save the preferences into the directory 'C:\ethereal', but comes
> back with an error " not able to create directory C:, file exits " .

Ethereal's trying to create the directory to hold the "Ethereal"
directory, but it's not being careful enough.  I'll fix that for the
next release.

> To work around, create the directory 'C:\ethereal' manually and move, if
> necessary, the  files created by former versions into that directory.

Or just rename "c:\.ethereal" to "c:\Ethereal".