No paragraph yet. This is just a checklist of things I am finding out after installing
First week thoughts: 3 days in but only used one day because its such a shitty program
- YAY! = Love it
- Eh! = Take it or leave it (Fluf) Possibly A great feature in some “Niche” cases.
- CON! = Negative. Please address and fix!
- Negative Experience: Great option for some, but come on, there’s another potentially better option. Maybe created because someone is used to a Mac?
- YAY! – It does offer the ability to lock folders to the top.!!!
- Eh! – It does give the age since last use. Cool, but distracting? It needs a toggle. (Yes, I can change the skin or the column settings, but the columns we can pick are super minimal. (Another Miss for below?) It can be great when cleaning up, so a YAY, just address other things vs let this be the only thing I might use the app for when you claim there’s more to the app)
What I miss:
- CON: the carrots that did exist in the left column
- CON: the visibility: when selecting multiple items to move/copy, if you skip some, i.e., use the Ctrl instead of Shift to select, you don’t know which item you’re on until you select it.
- CON: Star ratings
(The author says they will eventually fix this. 9 months ago: June 2025 > March 2026) - CON!!!: the ability to access android devises. First, USB, second, I guess FTP, in which case the author says they will never support accessing those devices (FTP, or Android over FTP; or Android at all? I can see the USB drive, I just can’t do anything.)
Notable: In some aspects, this is just a skin. Which is fine, given that the author/programmer is already lacking in key features. It still uses the Windows “About Dialog,” which provides access to additional information, including tags/keywords, star ratings, permissions, etc. More Skin Things: The move or copy pulls up the windows move command. Which at least has decent (Good?) duplication/overwrite checks.
Speaking to my goals:
- Negative experience: The top-level carrots (Computer>C>Users>User>Documents> Category>Destination folder) in the left column, going down 4-5 directory levels, you still have to do that, but you use an upper window pane to do that. Sure, in the left column, you can add a single “bookmark” (my term) for each folder you want to access, but that’s silly when you could just use carrots. Thus, the NOT ADDRESSED carrot issue. (Created because someone was used to Mac’s?
- CON: Carrots non-existent! I think they are non-existent because the software, programmer, or programming language can’t support them. Even the above-mentioned upper window pane opens a new column for each and every directory level you open. Such a mess! Granted, that only controls the current directory listed in the window pane below!!! Yes, at least you can copy/move a file from the lower window pane to one of the higher-level directories above, BUT if you want to move to a spot in a different tree, you must use a Miller Column.
- CON: Forced Miller Columns: I understand many love them, and they’re a GREAT OPTION, but to be forced to use them when there are so many equally good options. i.e., the above mentioned Carrots in the left column.
- Created because someone is used to a Mac?
- Created because some unix / ftp / other file managers use it.
PRO: Yes, its GREAT for viewing an entire folder, vs a disappearing tab or a dedicated 2nd window. VS. just seeing a list of columns in a carrot.
(i.e., What actual files are in that particular folder)
First day:
CON: Left Column is just a link to the listed item. i.e. Grabbing a file and hovering over pinned directories in the left column doesn’t cascade open them. I guess I need to learn the Mac’s Miller Column feature, or get used to operating in two-column mode (The left column isn’t cutting it, and is one thing I didn’t like about half the modules in that left column on the MS Windows Explorer. I LOVE carrots’; the cascading directories feature)
It freaks out when working with a phone via USB. The Phone’s USB doesn’t like doing multiple things at once. From moving to renaming files, they all fail. Yes, copying/moving seems to use the window’s commands, but OneCommander must not be releasing control so that the command can be executed. Switching to Windows doesn’t work unless I fully release by closing the app. — known issue…
Cannot access Android device connected via USB or FTP, and FTP will never be added, as the developer has clarified that this feature will never be added. Unsure whether that “Never” includes USB.
The select multiple does not highlight the cursor line very well. I can see the selected items, but not the highlighted items. i.e. I use shift to select 3 items, then, when I switch to ctl to skip a few items, I can’t tell where I am until I hit the space bar to select the items.