Listary FAQ

Listary Overview

General Listary Questions

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

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

  • The quickest 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 can I disable Listary for a specific application?

If the Listary toolbar shows up in the 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 can I 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 can I add the current folder as a favorite?

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

How can I assign a hot key to a favorite folder in Listary?

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 the 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 in your mp3 player.

How can I 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 can I 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 can I 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

Learn more about this feature here.

How can I 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

Learn more about this feature here.

How can I 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 do I 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 do I 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 do I search subfolders?

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 questions

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 by way of thanks.

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 leave 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 and Listary Pro are the same, you can download it here.

How do I 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 a 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.

Crash report component CrashRpt by Copyright (c) 2003 Michael Carruth.