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Re: Disabling "File Preview"
From: Jim <jak () globalprotocols com>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:38:15 -0500
So I went through the excruciating exercise of installing the latest Wireshark on my Ubuntu 9.04 system. Very minor improvement, but it still tries to 'preview' everything in the directory. IMHO, this is totally broken concept, to say nothing of it's implementation. Unless I'm missing it, even if I know the name of the file I want to load, there is no way to type it in until the complete directory scan completes. Try that over NFS on a VPN with 200-400ms latency -- argh!! As for installation procedures... double argh!! If the software wasn't otherwise so essential for what I do, and in fact rather wonderful, I would never have made it through. Anyway, if there's magic to disable the 'stat' operation, like a pointer to a file I can hack, please let me know. Regards, Jim Jaap Keuter wrote:
Hi, Abhijit Bare wrote:For me, wireshark tries to show a preview, only when I click on a file in the displayed list. It does not try to read in all the files by just opening the "File Open" dialog. ....That is both true, but it does try to stat all the files in the directory..... If I click on a large file, it times out in 3 seconds. The File Open dialog does pause, however, if there are a lot of files in the directory.That timeout is the preview. That pause are the stats at work, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310642 That may be a reason why preview==0 hasn't been given a specific meaning, yet. Thanks, Jaap- Abhijit On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl <mailto:jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>> wrote: Hi, Should '0' be interpreted as disable file preview? That would worth an enhancement bug. Thanks, Jaap On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:45:21 -0500, Jim <jak () globalprotocols com <mailto:jak () globalprotocols com>> wrote: > I need to disable 'file preview' feature completely. I've tried > unsuccessfully to set time-out to 0. I also searched some of the archive > and > most of the online documentation without finding any clues. > > The traces I am looking at are on an NFS mount over a relatively slow VPN > and > Wireshark can stall for a minute or more as it tries to read every file in > the > directory. > > Thanks in advance. > > Jim >___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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Current thread:
- Disabling "File Preview" Jim (Feb 02)
- Re: Disabling "File Preview" Jaap Keuter (Feb 02)
- Re: Disabling "File Preview" Abhijit Bare (Feb 02)
- Re: Disabling "File Preview" Jaap Keuter (Feb 02)
- Re: Disabling "File Preview" Jim (Feb 08)
- Re: Disabling "File Preview" Abhijit Bare (Feb 08)
- Re: Disabling "File Preview" Abhijit Bare (Feb 02)
- Re: Disabling "File Preview" Jaap Keuter (Feb 02)