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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] A suggestion to improve navigating in large captures

From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:50:58 -0800
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Michal Orynicz
<michal.orynicz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> isn't this functionality already there?
>
> It's labeled as "next mark" and "previous mark"...

You are correct. It is just not where I would have expected it, so
perhaps our menu system is counter intuitive. I would have expected it
under the Go menu, but it is under the Edit menu (and I did not notice
that they were grayed out when I looked under the Edit menu, perhaps
because I was not expecting them there.)

> On 20 February 2015 at 05:17, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I often have to deal with large captures. They can be as large as
>> several GB, and I often have to do things like filter on a specific
>> type of packet, which will throw up a smallish number of packets of
>> interest, but I need to look at the packets around those of interest.
>>
>> This involves selecting the first one of interest, eliminating the
>> filter, inspecting, but if that is not the area of interest, I
>> re-filter, then select the second packet of interest and go through
>> the whole process until I find the group of packets that I am
>> interested in.
>>
>> Now, I noticed that in the Edit menu we can mark all displayed
>> packets. Then if the Go menu was enhanced with a Go To Next Marked the
>> workflow I mentioned would be much easier.
>>
>> We could filter and if the packets are exactly what we are interested
>> in, we could Mark all displayed, then select the first, clear the
>> filter and then Go To Next Marked until we reach the group we are
>> interested in.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Richard Sharpe
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>>
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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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