Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11057] Profile Portability / Path Modification

Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:32:07 +0000

Comment # 5 on bug 11057 from
(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
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work?


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