Nimby

2. Install the app

Section 2 of 13Edit this page on GitHub
  1. Extract the zip anywhere you can write: C:\Games\Nimby, a second drive, a USB stick.
  2. Run Nimby.exe from that folder.
  3. The first launch creates data\config.json next to the executable.
Item What it is
Nimby.exeThe window you use.
bin\nimby.exeThe command-line tool the GUI drives for every action.
data\Portable configuration; holds the hash cache too.
assets\branding\Logos and marks, also used by the About page.
docs\This tutorial, the repository format notes, the screenshots.
LICENSES\Licence texts of the third-party components.
README.md, CHANGELOG.mdProject summary and release notes.
LICENSE, LICENSE-ADDITIONAL-TERMS.md, NOTICE, THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.mdLicence, attribution terms and third-party notices.

Keep Nimby.exe and bin\nimby.exe together — the CLI sits in bin because Windows cannot hold both Nimby.exe and nimby.exe in one folder. The GUI looks for bin\nimby.exe, then nimby.exe next to itself, then on PATH; if it is missing or from another version the window cannot do anything useful. Always move or copy the whole folder.

data\ is what makes the install portable: settings, repositories and the hash cache travel with the folder. Nimby probes the folder with a real write, so if you extract somewhere read-only such as C:\Program Files it falls back to %APPDATA%\Nimby\config.json automatically. Both work; only the portable one survives copying the folder to another machine.

To uninstall, close Nimby and delete the folder, plus %APPDATA%\Nimby if you used the fallback.