Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11057] Profile Portability / Path Modification
Comment # 3
on bug 11057
from ngebhar2@gmail.com
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #1)
> (In reply to ngebhar2 from comment #0)
> > Currently if you go to Help > About Wireshark and open the "Folders" tab you
> > can see the location of various config files that Wireshark uses. One of
> > those folders is the "Personal Configuration".
> >
> > I think it would be very helpful to be able to set this path manually to
> > another folder location.
>
> I.e., have one of the user's preferences be the location of the user's
> preferences? :-)
>
> *Something* is going to have to be stored in a hardwired location of some
> sort, as Wireshark would need to know where to look to find the location of
> the rest of the preferences.
>
> > In my case I would set it to the path of my
> > dropbox folder, so that I could easily sync my profiles / coloring rules /
> > etc across devices.
>
> "Easily" as long as that means that, on each device, you configure Wireshark
> to look for configuration information in your Dropbox folder when you first
> install it. It's not going to happen automatically, for reasons that should
> be obvious.
Hey Guy,
I'm certainly no programmer but I understand what you mean by *something* must
be hardcoded. However, I think there could be something where Wireshark could
drop a file into the default user preferences path called
"alternateprofilepath.txt" that contains the path I would specify. So when
wireshark launches it could check for the existance of that file and if found,
load the preferences from the alternate path. Or there could be a setting
placed in the Windows registry, there is already a Wireshark key under
CurrentUser\Software. Again, I'm not a developer so I don't know what the best
way would be.
I also understand that I would have to do something to get this to work on
another machine and it wouldn't just be magic. I would hope that someone that
would currently have to search through their appdata folder to copy their
profiles from one machine to another now would be able to modify a file or
setting to point it to the right location. :-)
I don't mean to make this more complex than it would need to be, just a neat
little feature that would make it easier for someone that has multiple "main"
computers to have a consistent Wireshark profile.
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