Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Misc schrieb:
> Guy Harris wrote:
>
>   
> > Misc wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > With truly portable application, you just put it somewhere and it
> > > works, with all its prior settings intact. That's what I need. I
> > > understand that I'd still have to correct the path in -P switch
> > > every  time I move Wireshark to a different folder. So I guess it's
> > > not TRULY  PORTABLE yet, but at least it's moving in right
> > > direction :)
> > >       
> > Well, you'll probably never have the standard Wireshark distribution
> > be portable "out of the box", as people NOT using it as a portable 
> > application would want it to store their preferences in their
> > "profile directory" or whatever it's called.
> >
> > What you might get is a separate build, or a separate package, that 
> > somehow forces Wireshark to run in a portable mode.
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>
> Guy, we are talking here about existing portable Wireshark U3 package,
> available from http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
>   
No, at least I'm talking about existing U3 Wireshark package here. Where 
did you found the word "portable"?
> Or at least it's "supposed" to be portable, and being advertized as
> designed for USB sticks.
>   
It's been designed for *U3* USB sticks - therefore the name - not for 
common *none U3* sticks.
> That's the package that I've been struggling with. This "portable"
> Wireshark couldn't find its preferences in its own folder and needed to
> be pointed to its own app folder with command line args :(
>   
It's perfectly working with U3 USB Sticks AFAIK.


Go Google yourself for U3 before firing any more of those uninformed 
mails to the list ...

Regards, ULFL


P.S: I guess your demanding tone and uninformed mails won't encourage 
any of the developers to spend some of their own spare time to improve 
the situation here (at least I won't do) ...