As outlined on the Download page, there are two methods of installing RIMMF. Whichever method you choose, the RIMMF install layout is basically the same.
In each case, the installation consists of one application named 'rimmf.exe', several support modules with the file extension '.dll'1), and two sub-folders included in the installation directory:
Installation folder
For the standard installation, the default location for the application and sub-folders is:
C:\Program Files\TMQ\RIMMF
Note: in a Windows 7 64-bit environment, the default installation folder will be:
C:\Program Files (x86)\TMQ\RIMMF
For the 'zipfile' or flash drive installation, the default installation location is whatever folder you unzip the download to. If you accept the default, the extraction folder will likely be named:
setupRimmf1
In the standard installation, the first time that the program runs, the 'RIMMF' sub-folder is copied to the 'My Documents' of the Windows user running the program. This 'My Documents' folder is where the RIMMF records that you create will be stored.
In the flash drive installation, this copy procedure does not take place2)–all user data is written directly to the distributed 'RIMMF' folder (see above).
The layout of the 'RIMMF' folder is the same in both installations; it contains five sub-folders:
Technical notes
The program looks for the 'RIMMF' folder in your 'My Documents' folder when it starts. If it does not find the folder there, it looks for it in its startup folder (the location of the 'rimmf.exe' application). If it does not find a 'RIMMF' folder there either, the program will not function as designed.
Both the windows installer, and the flash drive installation, will position and locate the support folder correctly. Do not move any of these folders around.
RIMMF does not use the windows system registry. Instead, all options are saved in an .ini file in the root of the support folder (eg. My Documents\RIMMF\options.ini).
If you have created any records or templates with RIMMF that you want to preserve, then before uninstalling the program, copy or move the corresponding folders:
To uninstall RIMMF
If you used the 'standard' installation, then use windows to remove RIMMF.
If you used the 'alternate' installation, then
There are two 'levels' of restoration. The first restores the default tables to their distributed state. The second deletes all tables and all option settings–the next time the program starts, a new RIMMF environment will be generated.
1. Restore default tables
2. Reset RIMMF tables
Using either Reset option does not affect any records or templates you have made. However, both will undo any changes you have made to the default tables. The first reset option does not delete elements, vocabularies, or terms you have added yourself; the second one does.
Its possible that after such a reset–if you have created your own templates with elements that you added yourself–you may get messages about 'orphan' or 'undefined' elements when using these templates. This is because you added elements which, although no longer in the tables, are still being referenced from the templates.
There are two solutions to this problem.
If you decided to disregard our advice and went ahead and installed RIMMF on the same computer using both installation methods, here is what we think will happen:
Therefore, if you are planning to use RIMMF from a flash drive, and make use of the great convenience of this type of installation (which allows you to move from one computer to another, and keep all of your customizations intact and uptodate without any need for syncing), then its best to follow our advice and not also install RIMMF on your system using the standard installation.