Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11057] Profile Portability / Path Modification
Comment # 6
on bug 11057
from Neil Gebhardt
(In reply to Gerald Combs from comment #5)
> (In reply to ngebhar2 from comment #3)
> > 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.
>
> Would a .cmd script along the lines of
>
> ----
> set APPDATA=c:\your\custom\profile\path
> c:\Program Files\Wireshark\Wireshark.exe
> ----
>
> work?
Hey Gerald,
I would prefer something that I could set once and it would persist through the
life of the installation. However, if there was a script like what you
mentioned that I would have to use to launch Wireshark to get it to load the
alternate path I would consider that a viable alternative.
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