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author | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@ulticom.com> | 2012-02-24 21:43:48 +0000 |
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committer | Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@ulticom.com> | 2012-02-24 21:43:48 +0000 |
commit | 1cf31238ffd9b3320666838578b59d35437e749a (patch) | |
tree | 5ed3f701b8e1fbdf40b60c210f2ef19fedea96dc /help/faq.py | |
parent | bc465f37fc7208e8369b1abe430d19e83286aad0 (diff) |
As suggested by multipleinterfaces in http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/9194/can-i-recover-a-discarded-capture :
Add the location of the temporary file on Windows 7.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=41183
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/help/faq.py b/help/faq.py index 7196e1890c..40f487238f 100755 --- a/help/faq.py +++ b/help/faq.py @@ -1352,12 +1352,13 @@ caused the problem; when capturing packets, Wireshark normally writes captured packets to a temporary file, which will probably be in <tt>/tmp</tt> or <tt>/var/tmp</tt> on UNIX-flavored OSes, <tt>\TEMP</tt> on the main system disk (normally <tt>C:</tt>) on Windows 9x/Me/NT 4.0, -and <tt>\Documents and Settings\</tt><var>your login -name</var><tt>\Local Settings\Temp</tt> on the main system disk on -Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003, so the capture file will -probably be there. It will have a name of the form, -<tt>wireshark_iface_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</tt>. Please don't send -a trace file greater than 1 MB when compressed; instead, make it +<tt>\Documents and Settings\</tt><var>your login name</var> +<tt>\Local Settings\Temp</tt> on the main system disk on +Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003, and +<tt>\Users\<var>your login name</var>\AppData\Local\Temp</tt> on the main system disk on +Windows 7, so the capture file will probably be there. It will have a name +of the form, <tt>wireshark_iface_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX</tt>. Please don't +send a trace file greater than 1 MB when compressed; instead, make it available via FTP or HTTP, or say it's available but leave it up to a developer to ask for it. If the trace file contains sensitive information (e.g., passwords), then please do not send it. |