From 1cf31238ffd9b3320666838578b59d35437e749a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Morriss Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:43:48 +0000 Subject: 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 --- help/faq.py | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'help') 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 /tmp or /var/tmp on UNIX-flavored OSes, \TEMP on the main system disk (normally C:) on Windows 9x/Me/NT 4.0, -and \Documents and Settings\your login -name\Local Settings\Temp 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, -wireshark_iface_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX. Please don't send -a trace file greater than 1 MB when compressed; instead, make it +\Documents and Settings\your login name +\Local Settings\Temp on the main system disk on +Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Server 2003, and +\Users\your login name\AppData\Local\Temp on the main system disk on +Windows 7, so the capture file will probably be there. It will have a name +of the form, wireshark_iface_YYYYmmddHHMMSS_XXXXXX. 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. -- cgit v1.2.1