Listary 7.1 Beta is ready to try! This is a major update: Listary 7 has been rebuilt in Rust, with a focus on speed and lower resource use. The launcher opens faster, search results arrive sooner, and memory use is lower. We’ve also fixed many of the issues you reported here.
If you’re on 7.0, check for updates to upgrade. If 7.1 doesn’t appear, or you’re using Listary 6 or installing for the first time, download it here. You can install it over your current version.
This release supports x64 PCs running Windows 10 or 11. ARM PCs aren’t supported yet; please keep your current version for now.
What’s new
Faster and lighter. In our tests on the same laptop, compared with 7.0, search was up to 4× faster, memory use fell by 34%, and building the index from scratch went from 21 seconds to 7 seconds. Shared graphics memory use also dropped from 77 MB to zero, measured separately from process memory.
UI refinements. Menus have rounded corners and softer shadows. Search bars in File Explorer and file dialogs have a unified rounded design, and folder paths use breadcrumb navigation.
More ways to work in the File Search Window. Drag multiple selected results together, Ctrl+click sidebar filters to combine them, and use command hotkeys that previously didn’t work in this window.
Better diagnostics. If a file isn’t showing up in search, the Diagnostic Tool (Options > About) helps identify the cause and walks you through troubleshooting.
For more on why we rewrote Listary and the details we worked on, read the blog post:
You reported these, and they’re fixed now. Thank you!
Search results are ranked more accurately. Better name matches come first, and previously opened files no longer get grouped ahead of them. Thanks @vinieux, @disillusioned and @jamesr (t/9556, post).
Fixed an issue that could cause the first attempt to eject a USB drive to fail. Drives indexed as a whole are also reindexed when reconnected after being unplugged without Safely Remove. Thanks @ASUNDER, @horst and @Stefan_Iordache (t/10243, t/10182, t/10053).
Fixed a settings issue on Windows systems using a non-Gregorian calendar, where only the first change was saved. Listary also now alerts you if settings can’t be saved. Thanks @AVI (t/10289).
We’re tracking the remaining reported bugs. If there’s a feature you’d like to see, vote for its topic in Feature Request. Your votes help us decide what to work on next.
Installation and update notes
Windows on ARM: The 7.1 installer won’t run on ARM PCs yet. If you receive an update prompt, skip it and keep your current version. ARM support is coming soon.
Updating from Listary 6: We haven’t started offering 7.1 through the V6 updater yet. We’d like to give the beta more time to settle first. If you want to try it now, use the download link above.
Found a problem? Please open a new topic in Bug Reports with your Listary version (Options > About), Windows version, and the steps to reproduce it. Screenshots or a short recording are helpful too.
Congrats on Listary 7! The speed and overall performance improvements are fantastic.
I am facing an issue where the Listary toolbar does not appear in “Open / Save As” dialogs in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Thunderbird.
OS: Windows 11 (x64) | Listary: 7.x
Works fine in Notepad and Spotify, but fails in browsers & mail clients.
Ctrl + G does not trigger it either.
Tested on two separate PCs: everything worked perfectly on v6.3, but upgrading to v7 broke the toolbar attachment in these applications on both machines.
It looks like a hooking issue specific to browser and email client file pickers in v7. Could you please look into it?
Listary 7.1.0.43 Beta is out. It brings three main improvements and fixes a number of issues you reported here.
New: see how fast search is on your PC
Open Options > About to see how long a search takes on your computer, how many files Listary can find, and how many times a day you open it. You can also run a speed test that times five common searches.
@jamesr Thanks for testing on two PCs. We tried Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Thunderbird here, and the search bar shows up in their Open and Save dialogs. Listary 7 is a new program, so your security software or Windows may be blocking it. Could you check your antivirus and firewall, and Windows Security > App & browser control > Exploit protection? Adding Listary to the trusted list often fixes this.
In the previous listary launcher, I could drag and drop a file from the suggested list search query into a folder in explorer. Listary 7 does not allow that. The Full File Launcher allows it but not the mini launcher.
Listary 7.1.0.45 Beta is out. It makes text clearer, adds an option to hide the tray icon and more, and fixes 10 issues, several of them reported here.
Improvements
Clearer text: small text no longer looks blurry at 100% and 125% display scaling, especially Chinese.
You can now hide the tray icon: turn off “Show tray icon” in Options > General.
Ctrl+X now cuts files in the launcher and search bars too.
In file dialogs, “Switch to Last Opened Folder in File Manager” now takes you to the folder you have open right now.
With the dark theme, Listary’s right-click menus are dark too (on Windows 11, confirmation dialogs are as well).
File sizes use the decimal separator for your region.
Fixes
Listary no longer needs the Visual C++ runtime installed separately. Before, it wouldn’t start on computers without it.
Fixed Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and other shortcuts not working in text boxes with Caps Lock on, or with keyboards such as Russian or Hebrew.
Fixed Ctrl+Insert, Shift+Insert and similar shortcuts not working in text boxes (they worked in 7.0).
Fixed hotkeys changed in Options not working in the File Search Window.
Fixed a black frame that sometimes appeared around the launcher.
Fixed search results sometimes showing a file’s old name after it was renamed.
Fixed “Go to Parent Folder” going to the wrong place from a top-level folder.
Fixed the eBay name showing incorrectly in web search.
Fixed the tray icon not showing its name when you hover over it.
Windows no longer shows “Unknown publisher” when you uninstall Listary.
Thank you
You reported these here, and they’re fixed in this version:
Following up on my previous bug report about Listary 7 failing to trigger in browser file pickers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox):
I finally tracked down the exact root cause of the issue!
The Discovery
It turned out the problem was caused by my antivirus software, which was installed across my different machines. The antivirus was silently blocking Listary 7’s hooking mechanism specifically when interacting with web browsers.
Digging into the protection logs, I found that the antivirus was intercepting and dropping Listary’s hook DLL: ...\Listary\hook\ListaryHook64_7.1.0.1.dll
The Workaround
Adding an exception specifically for ListaryHook64_7.1.0.1.dll in the antivirus’s browser protection module immediately resolved the problem.
Perhaps you could look into how ListaryHook64.dll is injected, signed, or handled in v7 so that Listary works out-of-the-box, without being blocked by my antivirus or others?
