# Listary doesn't always seek recently folders **URL:** \ **Category:** Archived\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117 "2014-12-02T11:09:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mon](https://discussion.listary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mon](https://discussion.listary.com/u/mon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/1 "2014-12-02T11:09:54Z")
List of recently folders contains path:"E:\Drivers\HP\LaserJet2300\x64": [![](https://discussion.listary.com/uploads/default/278/308201473ca7f344.jpg)](http://screenshotuploader.com/s/1411thk-z/) Why Listary doesn’t find it? [![](https://discussion.listary.com/uploads/default/279/abb3b77488b2e841.jpg)](http://screenshotuploader.com/s/14116ut5a/) Options “Search recent files and folders” is turn on. ---
**Author:** ![Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/channing/32/5497_2.png) [@Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/u/Channing)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/2 "2014-12-02T12:41:20Z")
Hi, Listary only searches folder/file names for history records. The folder should be there (maybe the top one) if you search for “x64”. ---
**Author:** ![mon](https://discussion.listary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mon](https://discussion.listary.com/u/mon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/3 "2014-12-02T12:52:59Z")
Could you add searching substring in recently folder’s path, if option “Fuzzy matching” is selected? ---
**Author:** ![Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/channing/32/5497_2.png) [@Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/u/Channing)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/4 "2014-12-02T14:26:57Z")
The history component will be completely redesigned in Listary 5. I’ll add this feature if it fits well in the new version. ---
**Author:** ![mon](https://discussion.listary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mon](https://discussion.listary.com/u/mon)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/5 "2014-12-02T16:43:56Z")
Ok. I only want to add: few people remember exactly last folder. In my example I remember exactly I was looking for driver and opened folder “driver” or “drivers”. It seems I was looking for drivers by Hewlett-Packard and could open folder “HP”. These keywords could help me to find required recently opened folder. ---
**Author:** ![Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/channing/32/5497_2.png) [@Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/u/Channing)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/6 "2014-12-02T23:21:29Z")
The [search path](http://www.listary.com/search-path) feature would be very helpful in this case. You can type **`driver\hp`** or **`hp driver\`** directly. ---
**Author:** ![mon](https://discussion.listary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mon](https://discussion.listary.com/u/mon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 7:21am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/7 "2014-12-03T07:21:35Z")
Unfortunately it doesn’t work: [![](https://discussion.listary.com/uploads/default/280/a15762f1dde96c86.jpg)](http://screenshotuploader.com/s/14127qecl/). You offered to search the entire disk. But even if it worked my recently opened path could be in the middle or at the end of the results list. ---
**Author:** ![Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/channing/32/5497_2.png) [@Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/u/Channing)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 9:14am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/8 "2014-12-03T09:14:48Z")
First please update to the latest version of Listary: [http://www.listary.com/download](http://www.listary.com/download) You can then use [search filters](http://www.listary.com/search-filters) to limit the search to only folders by typing `driver\hp folder:` ---
**Author:** ![mon](https://discussion.listary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mon](https://discussion.listary.com/u/mon)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 10:13am UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/9 "2014-12-03T10:13:14Z")
Version: 4.23.1728 Search string gets longer and longer. 🙂 After i’ve typed “driver\hp folder:” among the results I don’t see the result with whole recent path: “E:\Drivers\HP\LaserJet2300\x64”. I have to remember what folders was opened after drivers\hp. What to do If the path contains 20-30… folders? If I remember **only one** folder name in the beginning or middle of the recent path and there are many folders with the same name on disks, adding “folder:” doesn’t help. What are the hot keys to move to the beginning and end of the list of results? Home/End or CtrlHome/CtrlEnd don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/channing/32/5497_2.png) [@Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/u/Channing)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/10 "2014-12-03T15:37:21Z")
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. > [@mon](#): > > What to do If the path contains 20-30… folders? I think the history path search may not work as expected in this case. Imagine you have a `D:\Documents\Photos` folder that you use very often. One day you want to open it, so you type `photo`, and all you get is something like this: `D:\Documents\Photos\2014\Cars D:\Documents\Photos\Pets\Cats\123 D:\Documents\Photos\2013\Business\People D:\Documents\Photos\2013\ ... ` Maybe I can add a `history:` keyword to let Listary search only history records. But this will add more complexity. I need to think about this carefully. > [@mon](#): > > What are the hot keys to move to the beginning and end of the list of results? Home/End or CtrlHome/CtrlEnd don’t work. I think I broke Home/End in an update accidentally ☹ Currently you can use Page Up/Down to speed up scrolling. ---
**Author:** ![mon](https://discussion.listary.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mon](https://discussion.listary.com/u/mon)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/11 "2014-12-04T12:16:57Z")
> [@Channing](#): > > One day you want to open it, so you type photo, and all you get is something like this: > D:\Documents\Photos\2014\Cars > D:\Documents\Photos\Pets\Cats\123 > D:\Documents\Photos\2013\Business\PeopleD:\Documents\Photos\2013\ What is wrong? I created a directory structure from your example and added folders in recent. It turns out it was excellent realized in version 3.51: [![](https://discussion.listary.com/uploads/default/284/af735a31d7138252.jpg)](http://screenshotuploader.com/s/1412synd8/) I could easily filter out the necessary folder: [![](https://discussion.listary.com/uploads/default/285/4c0edb0baf978d54.jpg)](http://screenshotuploader.com/s/1412jayjq) [![](https://discussion.listary.com/uploads/default/286/f72d1484786ef1e5.jpg)](http://screenshotuploader.com/s/1412cqy84/) Imho you added entire disk searching in version 4. It’s great! But you broke search in recent folders. ---
**Author:** ![Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/user_avatar/discussion.listary.com/channing/32/5497_2.png) [@Channing](https://discussion.listary.com/u/Channing)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary-doesnt-always-seek-recently-folders/2117/12 "2014-12-04T13:18:22Z")
Listary 3 can only search the current folder (not even including subfolders!). So when you type `photo` in Listary 3, it’s almost certain that you’d like to search recent folders because you know that Listary can’t get you anywhere else (the folder search will usually give you only one search result). Now Listary 4 supports searching the entire disk. So when a user types `photo`, he is expecting Listary to list all the photo folders on his disk like `C:\Photos`, `C:\Users\Common\Photos` and `D:\Documents\Photos`. Listing recent folders like `Cars`, `123`, `People` and `2013` at the very top of search results of `photo` would be very confusing, I think. However your screenshots do inspire me: bringing back the standalone “Recent” section may also be a solution. This solution will also add some complexity to Listary, so I’d like to think about it carefully.