Needing to extract some items from old stuffit archives, I had to launch the manager. Low and behold, each item now appears twice!

I know of no other Mac program that insists on scanning your whole hard drive to find items of its file type. This interface is so non-Mac like and has been for quite a few versions now. Clearly a bad port of a Windoz program interface.

As noted by a previous poster, the right-click shortcuts a few versions back were _much_ more useful.

The only real use I had for this was encrypted archives. But as pointed out in OsXHints and elsewhere, you can construct an encrypted disk image to store a bunch of files in one place that is encrypted. A quick tar cfz in that directory will compress everything contained, if needed.

11 was the last version I will purchase after many years of supporting this program. This upgrade is clearly just a quick cash grab by Smith Micro. If they want my $, here's a suggestion: have someone who has worked on and programmed a Mac for a while sit down and figure out how to provide a document based interface that is useful and easy to use. Perhaps start over -- don't even look at what the Windoz programmers have done.