Re: Disabling "File Preview"

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl>]

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
>      >

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