FAQ

Contents

1 Listary Overview
2 General
3 Favorite
4 Recent Documents
- 4.1 How to disable this feature for a specific application?
- 4.2 How to totally disable this feature?
5 Quick Switch
- 5.1 How to change the hot keys of Quick Switch?
6 Smart Commands
- 6.1 How to assign a hot key to a smart command?
7 Find As You Type for File List
8 Multi-language
- 8.1 What languages does Listary support?
- 8.2 How can I help translate Listary into my own language?
9 Text Editing
- 9.1 Where is the text editing feature in older versions of Listary?
10 Listary Pro
11 Credits and Attributions

Listary Overview

General

Where is Listary? I can’t find it after installation.

Listary runs in background, but you can access it from anywhere instantly.

The fastest way is to double click on any part of the empty area in Explorer, Desktop and file dialogs.
Hot key Win + W and mouse middle-click work in all applications supported by Listary.
After opening an Explorer window, you can also press any key to let the toolbar show up.

How to disable Listary for a specific application?

If Listary toolbar shows up in this application, please click Smart menu – Disable Listary for This Application.

Otherwise please follow these steps:

1. Open Listary Options – Applications.
2. Choose the application you’d like to disable from the top list. If it’s not there, click the add button to add it first.
3. Uncheck “Enable Listary for this application”.
4. Click OK.

How to export/backup my Listary settings?

All settings of Listary are stored in one “Config.xml” file. It’s located in:

The same folder as the executable file if you’re using the portable version.
C:\Users\<Your User Name>\AppData\Roaming\Listary\Config.xml (Windows Vista/7)
C:\Documents and Settings\<Your User Name>\Application Data\Listary\Config.xml (Windows XP)

Favorite

How to add current folder to favorite?

Let Listary show up first, then simply click “Add Here” in the favorite menu.

How to assign a hot key to a favorite folder?

1. Open Listary Options – Favorites.
2. Select the folder.
3. Set the hot key in Details – Hot key, and then click the big tick icon.
4. Click OK.

There are some predefined hot keys:

Ctrl + Alt + C : Your C drive
Ctrl + Alt + D : Your D drive
Ctrl + Alt + E : Your E drive
…

What’s the difference between “Global” and “This Application” in Favorite menu?

Favorite folders in “Global” show up in all applications while those being added to “This Application” will only show up in the current application. You may need this feature if you want your “Photos” folder only be added as a favorite of Photoshop and not mp3 player.

How to search favorite folders?

The find as you type feature will also search all your favorite folders.

See how to use the find as you type feature.

Recent Documents

How to disable this feature for a specific application?

1. Open Listary Options – Applications.
2. Choose the application you’d like to disable from the top list. If it’s not there, click the add button to add it first.
3. Uncheck “Track recent files and folders”.
4. Click OK.

How to totally disable this feature?

1. Open Listary Options – Recent.
2. Uncheck “Track global recent items” and “Track recent files and folders for all applications”.
3. Click OK.

Quick Switch

You can learn more about this feature here.

How to change the hot keys of Quick Switch?

1. Open Listary Options – Smart Commands.
2. Select “Switch to Last Opened Folder in File Manager” or “Open the File Selected in File Manager”.
3. Set the hot key in Details – Hot key, and then click the big tick icon.
4. Click OK.

Smart Commands

You can learn more about this feature here.

How to assign a hot key to a smart command?

1. Open Listary Options – Smart Commands.
2. Select the command.
3. Set the hot key in Details – Hot key, and then click the big tick icon.
4. Click OK.

Find As You Type for File List

How does this feature work?

This feature lets you browse through large, unmanageable lists of files, folders and other entries with incredible ease.

It performs a Google like keyword search. For example, if you want to select “MyPhoto0711.jpg”, all the following search terms will work:

my
photo
photo .jpg
.jpg photo

This feature will also search through your favorite folders, recent documents and smart commands.

How to use this feature in Windows Explorer?

After opening an Explorer window, you can start typing your keywords directly. Nothing else needs to be done.

You can press Esc to hide the toolbar.

How to use this feature in file dialogs?

There are several different ways to use the find as you type feature in file dialogs:

1. Press hot key Win + W and type your keywords.
2. Set input focus to the file list (by clicking it or use Tab), and then type your keywords.
3. Click the search box in Listary toolbar, and then type your keywords.

How to search subfolders?

Sorry that Listary is not a search tool and doesn’t have this feature. If you need to search entire disk, I personally recommend Everything.

Multi-language

What languages does Listary support?

English
Chinese (Simplified)
French (by Hovsep Avedissian)
German (by Gert Massheimer)
Japanese (by t.s-y)
Russian (by Valerij Romanovskij & Dmitry Y)
Spanish (by Argento)
Swedish (by Leif Larsson)
Italian (by Igino Fusco Moffa)
Italian (by allelimo)
Ukrainian (by Konstantin Lyubchenko)
Ukrainian (by Maximus)
Korean (by YU Hee Cheol)
Polish (by S. Freling)

How can I help translate Listary into my own language?

Thank you very much for your time to help me improve Listary. After translating you’ll get a free Pro license as a thank you.

Language files are under the “Languages” folder in Listary’s installation directory. You can start translating by simply copy English.ini to YourLanguage.ini and then open it in your favorite text editor.

Some notes:

I highly recommend you translate a few lines first, and then go to Listary Options – General to apply your translation to see if it works as expected.
Please keep escape sequences like \n, \t, %d, %s, %% in the language file unchanged.
Lines start with semicolons (i.e. “;”) are comments, you don’t need to translate them.
It’s possible that some strings are much longer in your language than in English, and they may not be fully displayed. Please let me know if you find this situation so I can adjust the UI.

Text Editing

Where is the text editing feature in older versions of Listary?

It’s now a standalone application. You can get it here.

Listary Pro

Where can I download Listary Pro?

The installer of Listary Pro is the same Listary, you can download it here.

How to use regular expressions in Listary Pro?

Please type : followed by the regular expression. For example, if you want to match file and folder names that end with two digits (something like “folder32″ or “file00″), just type :.*\d{2}

If you want to learn more about regex, a good start is The 30 Minute Regex Tutorial.

I exported list content to a CSV file, why is it empty?

Please change the list to “Details view” and try again.

Credits and Attributions

Some icons are from the Silk icon set, http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

Some icons are from Fugue Icons by Yusuke Kamiyamane.