Setup

WARNING: if Pimmy has been registered as main Windows mail or newsgroup program, it is necessary to remove these registrations using Pimmy options before removing Pimmy. Pimmy removal will not automatically remove these registrations from "Windows Registry".

1. Close Pimmy.
2. Run automatic removal program "Removal of Geminisoft Pimmy" in the Start menu using the icon created during setup or use related Control Panel item in "Add/remove programs".

Portable edition (ZIP file)

Compressed file is named "pimmyXYZ-portable-LL.zip"   where XYZ is the version and LL is a language code. It contains the following files:

Nome file	Descrizione
Pimmy.exe	The program
Pimmy.lic	License file (optional)
Pimmy.Help.*.chm	Help files in a specific language (one or more)
Pimmy.Language.*.txt	Language files (zero, one or more)

Setup

1. Create a folder, for instance "H:\Pimmy" if H: is you pendrive letter.
2. Uncompress the ZIP file to that folder.
3. At your convenience create a shortcut to the program "Pimmy.exe" on desktop or Start menu.

Update

1. Close Pimmy.
2. Uncompress the ZIP file to the folder which contains the previous release, for instance "H:\Pimmy".
3. Delete old help file (Pimmy.chm).
4. When you start Pimmy for the first time the configuration file will be converted and the old one will be saved as  Pimmy.cfg.<n> [ Important note ].
5. If you are upgrading from Pimmy 3.5 you will asked to rebuild cache for all folders; this preliminary action allows you to get a benefit from new cache and will be performed on all folders contemporaneously (the computer could be slowed down during this phase); if not performed Pimmy will do it on each folder at first opening. In addition you can rebuild all caches using Tools / Maintenance menu.

 Removal

WARNING: if Pimmy has been registered as main Windows mail or newsgroup program, it is necessary to remove these registrations using Pimmy options before removing Pimmy. Pimmy removal will not automatically remove these registrations from "Windows Registry".

1. Close Pimmy.
2. Delete any shortcuts created on desktop and Start menu.
3. Delete installation folder, for instance "H:\Pimmy".
4. This will delete ALL configuration and messages.

How to update a non-English version of Pimmy

If you are using Pimmy translated into a language different from English you can upgrade to this version but if your language is not currently available, Pimmy will add English as second language. In this way the most of Pimmy will be translated in your language and only the new menus, windows and sentences will be in English.

In case of problems (for instance if you see some Italian terms) please follow these steps to change languages manually:

1. open Pimmy
2. click "Tools / Options" menu
3. click "Advanced" tab
4. in the language section, select your language as "Language 1"
5. then select "English" as "Language 2"
6. click OK and Pimmy will be restarted.
7. close Pimmy and follow the update procedure described below

Periodically check our web site for new language availability.

Important note on Pimmy update and configuration files

On each final release and on several test versions, configuration file Pimmy.cfg changes format to be able to manage new features and options.

Due to a technical matter on any format change the file is converted and old file is saved as Pimmy.cfg.<n> where <n> is a number that describes the file version (different from Pimmy version).

A similar behaviour regards the address book file, even if format changes less frequently. On format change file Pimmy.dir is saved as  Pimmy.dir.<n> where <n>  is a number that describes the file version (different from Pimmy version and from configuration file version).

Configuration file and address book file are not compatible with previuos versions of Pimmy (when format change occurs), while both will be read from all future releases of Pimmy. So, saved files are absolutely necessary to be able to install a previous version of Pimmy. We suggest you should not delete files "Pimmy.cfg.<n>" and "Pimmy.dir.<n>" or at least keep the ones with higher number, those related to the version of Pimmy used before last update. If these files are not available, to go back to an older version of Pimmy it will be necessary to write all configuration (and/or all address book).

To install an older version of Pimmy:

1. close Pimmy and copy old program
2. delete (or rename) file "Pimmy.cfg"
3. delete (or rename) file "Pimmy.dir" (if necessary)
4. resume old configuration file, renaming file "Pimmy.cfg.<n>" to "Pimmy.cfg"
5. resume old address book file (if necessary), renaming file "Pimmy.dir.<n>" to "Pimmy.dir"
6. open Pimmy

Of course all modifications occured to configuration (and to address book) after the creation of backup files will be lost, but you will be able to start from a not-too-old configuration. Best that starting from scratch. Moreover, please note that internal counters regarding downloaded messages (in particular on newsgroups) will be brought back to the day of the backup, so it could be possible that some messages will be downloaded again. Folders counters will be wrong too but you can fix them opening each folder. 

We remind that it is very important to do regular backup of disks and in particular - regarding Pimmy - of configuration file, address book file, folders and messages. Due to limited program size, we suggest you should backup all folder where Pimmy has been installed.