This appears to be a great tool for a simple document repository.

All I had to do was run up my FTP program, create a master directory for my downloads and then some sub-directories under that related to the types of document for downloads. Eg: downloads/Minutes, downloads/Templates, etc. I dragged a few files into those directories as a test. I then went into the component from Joomla's backed administration making sure that I had a nice title for the Component Heading, put /downloads at the end of the default Root download folder, changed the default permission to View and I disabled the Rating because I don't want to use that. Then I linked it to my usermenu, ran up my frontend website, logged in as a user and selected the menu item. Straight away, I could see the download directories nicely formatted to my site template and hyperlinked automatically to the document directories. I clicked into one with a document and it was easy to see the document/s with a file size automatically tagged. Downloading was a breeze. Voila! How simple is that?

Pros
- Installed in a breeze
- Took about 15 seconds to set up the parameters I wanted (and about a minute behind-the-scenes setting up the directories and dragging some documents using my FTP software)
- A few more seconds saw me linking a menu item to the right component
- Seemed to handle my template style easily
- A strength is its automatic detection of download directories and files within those. Assuming you name the directories and the files with meaningful names, uploading files is as simple as FTP'ing them from your computer.
- It works!

Cons
- Can't see any yet although perhaps lack of documentation.
- Basic but perfect if that's all you want

Thanks!