Saving and Loading Data

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To save collected packets to disk, click the Save button , use the File > Save menu command, or press Ctrl+S on the keyboard. This will open the Windows standard dialog for saving files. Near the bottom of the dialog you will see some additional options:

• Save All: This is the default. All packets in the document will be saved in the file.

• Save Filtered: This option is only available if you applied a view filter to the current view. It will save all packets which are visible in the list view.

• Save Selected: This will save only the currently selected packets.

• Compress: The file will be compressed when saved, thus it will use less space on the disk. With external file compression tools you will mostly get higher compression rates, but with the internal compression you can load files without uncompressing them before.

Note: The compress option is only available for data that was collected into the standard packet list. If you load uncompressed data from disk (e.g. after using the scheduled collector that writes data directly to disk), the program uses a different data management approach that can display files that are larger than the available memory, but that is not compatible with data compression.

If you save a file that was already saved to disk, you will not see the standard dialog, but only a small one that offers the above options. To save a file under a new name, use the File > Save As menu command.

You load a previously saved file by clicking the Open button , by using the File > Open menu command, or by pressing Ctrl+O on the keyboard. This will show the standard file open dialog where you can choose the file to load. The application will detect itself whether the file was compressed or not.

To close a view, you can use the standard close button in the upper right corner of the view window or press Ctrl+F4 on the keyboard. If this was the only view of the corresponding document, the document will be closed, too. If you opened multiple views for a document (e.g. via the Window > New Window command), you can close them all at a time by using the File > Close menu command.