Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Modify default profile location

[Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 sep 2013, at 20:44, Christopher Maynard wrote:

>> Is there a way to point the default profile location to a folder located
> on a USB drive? I have a folder with
>> multiple troubleshooting profiles that I want to use on multiple machines
> but keeping them in sync under
>> the local user account is a pain. Would it be better to maybe run
> Wireshark portable in this case (although
>> some of the machines are x64)?
> 
> Currently, you can override the default preferences location (and thereby
> the default profile location) by defining an environment variable named
> U3_APP_DATA_PATH to be set to the desired location.

One other solution is to use a cloudservice to sync the profiles. On my two MacBooks I have make a symlink ~/.wireshark/profiles to ~/Dropbox/sync/profiles so that all profiles are available on both MacBooks.

> 
> Since 1.10 is the last version that will support U3[1] though, we should
> probably change the name of that environment variable to something else.  My
> vote would be to use WS_APPDATA, and I'll likely change it to that in the
> trunk unless there are any objections.

+1

Cheers,
Sake