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

[neil lehrer <nlehrer@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 

depends on how dumb the app is.

> > 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".
> 
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