Hello, My drive c is full and when I am running the wireshark I get the error message low disk space. how can I change the drive where the packets are being captured. I do not mean when I save the capture but when the capture is being run I would like the packets to be stored in drive D. BR, V. Nicolau asked 01 Mar '11, 05:47  VictorNicolau |
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Wireshark (on windows) will use the environment variable So make sure answered 01 Mar '11, 06:15  SYN-bit ♦♦ |
Thanks for the answer unfortunately for me this solution will not work because the machine I am using wireshark on as to have the Temp directed to drive c otherwise the specific application does not work.
If you can't change the system temp directory you could set a temporary temp path for just one run of Wireshark. To do that, open a command prompt and type
set temp=d:\temp(press enter. )Then, in the same command prompt, start Wireshark (usually by running
c:\program files\wireshark\wireshark.exe, though it may be different on your machine). I have the Wireshark directory in my system path, so I could just call wireshark.exe.You can automate this by writing a small batch file that sets the temp path before calling wireshark.exe, then create a shortcut and assign the Wireshark.exe icon to it.
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Thanks a lot. This is a good solution for me. Now I just need to know how to write a Batch file and associate the wireshark .exe icon to it.
BR, V. Nicolau
A batch file is just a text file that you can create with any text editor. In that file you write all commands, usually one per line, and save the complete file with a ".cmd" or ".bat" extension. That way you can execute it as a batch.
To assign an icon you might want to create a shortcut of the batch file and then use the shortcut properties to change the icon. Browse to the wireshark executable and select it as icon source.