Greenshot makes lots of web requests to its website
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Windows 10 Professional Intel i7 12GB RAM 1TB SSD
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Robin Krom February 25, 2019 at 2:46 PM
Just so you know, due to personal reasons I didn’t get to this yet.
Josh Markiewicz February 24, 2019 at 11:02 PM
Installed it with your installer I believe. I was able to make a simple notepad change and save the ini to set debug mode. I used “everything” to find the files, here are their locations. Nothing in is the Program Files dir. They are marked as “compressed” which I didn’t do, I imagine that’s a Windows default although I’ve never noticed that before.
Robin Krom February 23, 2019 at 6:23 PM
It should automatically update the LastUpdateCheck value after every check.
How did you install Greenshot, and where did you find the greenshot.ini? Can the process write in that directory, maybe the file is write protected?
Are you using other greenshot*.ini files in the directory? There are ways to fix settings, which might cause the issue you are having.
Robin Krom February 23, 2019 at 6:18 PM
That is weird, almost like it doesn’t update the greenshot.ini with the most recent date.
Josh Markiewicz February 23, 2019 at 12:28 AM
Sitting in debug, I found these entries now…
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I have Greenshot launch at startup. Noticed today via PiHole that a lot of requests are made. Every 5 minutes to be precise. I saw a recently closed JIRA on the subject that was closed because it was old. I have my setting to the default "check every 14 days". Just wondering why these requests are made every 5 minutes.
I included the last dozen requests or so in a screenshot with timeline.