Reviews of muCommander for Windows

1. 
   spiked

   Reviewing 0.8.2 (Apr 19, 2008)

   Due to being GPL, muCommander does not (and can never) support RAR files because it is not possible to implement RAR v3 (including all compression types) with GPL code. However, there is no excuse for not supporting 7z because GPL-compatible Java implementations have been available for over 3 years.
   
   Really, muCommander feels like a programming class project getting dragged out, except that the teacher isn't guiding it anymore. In fact, there is no roadmap. That's why muCommander is over 6 years old but the developers are still not willing to call it version 1.0 yet. The feature list seems long but it's full of trivial little things which aren't well coordinated. Much effort gets spent on platform compatibility issues. After 6 years, this file manager finally supports deleting files to the Windows Recycle Bin. You see why it's still not version 1.0?
   
   If you really need cross-platform Java, you might be able to tolerate the immaturity of muCommander. If you're really just looking for a free 2-paned file manager for Windows, you may be happier with FreeCommander.
2. 
   DudeBoyz

   Reviewing 0.8.2 (Apr 18, 2008)

   @SPIKED - why can't you just use the right click menu to access your RAR archives when you have WinRAR installed? It works great from Windows Explorer, PowerDesk, Free Commander, muCommander, etc.
   
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   Although I've bailed on using Macs and OS X and am back again using Windows exclusively, the fact that it's multi-platform means it's still useful to me, thankfully.
   
   Since the updates of PowerDesk Pro in versions 6 and now 7 still contain a few show-stopper bugs, such as not keeping the proper sorted order during drag and drop operations and I'm stuck back at PowerDesk Pro 5, I need to start focusing on other options.
   
   PowerDesk Pro 5 has a bug in how it handles NTFS partitions that seems to involve the date and time display. If you update a file in a folder, it will not only show the new date and time on that particular file, but often change the date and time on the folder itself, which is somewhat annoying. Seems confused about which to display - created time and date, last viewed, last updated, etc. Just not handling it properly, whatever the case.
   
   MU Commander does not suffer from this anomoly, nor does Free Commander, I believe.
   
   So, even though the pace of development on this product is quite slow, I still find it a valuable alternative and am grateful that it's available and free.
3. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 0.8.1 (Nov 30, 2007)

   Only thing I really like is it aphabetizes everything correctly instead of by type.
   Problem is, it is it's own interface and neglects your regular windows' options.
   If it gave you your normal right click options it would be good. It refused to 'open' an ini file at all.
   I guess for simple file operations it is ok, but freecommander blows it away-in resources too.
4. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 0.8 (Oct 5, 2007)

   Nice. On windows I prefer freecommander's gui though. If I ever get around to running linux (unix?) f/t I will definitely use it
5. 
   lokanetra

   Reviewing 0.8 Beta 3 (Mar 11, 2007)

   When I first saw that this was programmed in Java, I immediately thought it was going to be slow and not very good. I'm beginning to have a renewed faith in Java apps. Starts-up pretty quick, seems to run well, no problems that I can see. I think this deserves a solid rating of 4. As this is a beta version, I believe future revisions will make it even better.

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