Listary reads about 2 GB of data during start-up. Since Listary does not maintain its own index (like ‘Everything’), I guess this data contains all file locations from all MFTs of all drives in the PC?
If yes, when does Listary update its data?
Thanks.
Listary has a database under
C:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\Listary\UserProfile\Cache\your_computer_name
I guess it gets notfied about local file system changes.
Listary is running on my PC (Win 7), but the folder you mention only contains ‘ListaryLog.txt’. This log, however, contains many entries like
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2022-11-14 13:47:48.438 [13][Info] [Listary.DiskSearch.] Index: trying to remove folder [255] with childs
2022-11-14 13:47:48.454 [13][Info] [Listary.DiskSearch.] Index: trying to remove folder [36] with childs
2022-11-14 13:47:48.886 [16][Info] [Listary.DiskSearch.] Index: trying to remove folder [117] with childs
2022-11-14 13:47:48.893 [16][Info] [Listary.DiskSearch.] Index: trying to remove folder [33] with childs
2022-11-14 13:48:45.408 [13][Info] [Listary.DiskSearch.] Index: trying to remove folder [trash2187] with childs
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As far as I can see, Listary is working…
Hello horst,
thanks for your help. I read through the forum and found this entry:
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Hi, Listary itself keeps the index in ram, and only read/write the index file when you start/close it. So it’s not necessary to move the index file to a ramdisk manually.
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This would also explain why Listary.exe grabs about 260 MB RAM after starting. After stopping and restarting the program, I have an index file on disk. Because I have set Listary to start and stop with the OS, it probably deletes the file on shutdown, so I could not find it.