Configuration Profiles can be used to configure and use more than one set of preferences and configurations. Select the Configuration Profiles… menu item from the Edit menu, or simply press Shift-Ctrl-A; and Wireshark will pop up the Configuration Profiles dialog box as shown in Figure 10.9, “The configuration profiles dialog box”. It is also possible to click in the “Profile” part of the statusbar to popup a menu with available Configuration Profiles (Figure 3.22, “The Statusbar with a configuration profile menu”).
Configuration files stored in the Profiles:
User Accessible Tables:
All other configurations are stored in the personal configuration folder, and are common to all profiles.
You can change the name of the currently selected profile here.
The profile name will be used as a folder name in the configured “Personal configurations” folder. If adding multiple profiles with the same name, only one profile will be created.
On Windows the profile name cannot start or end with a period (.), and cannot contain any of the following characters: ‘\’, ‘/’, ‘:’, ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘`’, ‘<’, ‘>’, ‘|’, or ‘+’. On Unix the profile name cannot contain the ‘/’ character.