Re: Wireshark Causing SMB Query

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Mar 3, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Jim Aragon <Jim () agdatasystems com> wrote:

> I'm also wondering why Wireshark would look for this directory every time a capture is started or restarted, rather 
> than when Wireshark is launched, shut down, or a preference is changed. Those seem like the logical times to read or 
> write preferences, not when a capture is started.

The preferences file isn't the only file stored there.  There are also files called "recent" and "recent_common", which 
are used to remember various user decisions that aren't stored as preferences, such as window sizes, column sizes, and 
the last capture filter used.
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