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Nimi Places

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Organizes desktop into customizable containers - showing folders (e.g.: local folders, network locations) contents, displayed as icons/thumbnails on scrollable surface. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents and PSD images, but...

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License model

  • Free PersonalProprietary

Country of Origin

  • PT flagPortugal
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Windows
2.3 / 5 Avg rating (12)
53likes
14comments
0news articles

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Configurable

Features

  1.  Portable
  2.  Group Icons
  3.  Skinnable
  4.  Special Folders
  5.  Application Launchers

 Tags

  • desktop-organizer
  • fencing-on-the-desktop
  • organize-desktop

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Nimi Places information

  • Developed by

    PT flagNimi projects
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free Personal product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.3 (12 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    16 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 14 comments and reviews about Nimi Places, and it has gotten 53 likes

Nimi Places was added to AlternativeTo by RemovedUser on May 4, 2010 and this page was last updated Dec 7, 2023.

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Comment summary: Nimi Places, a small and responsive tool for organizing digital content, often frustrates users with bugs, frequent crashes, unclear installation/uninstallation, and privacy concerns tied to its EULA. Though free for non-commercial use, it's not open-source. Users prefer Nimi Places over Fences due to fewer activation hassles, but they acknowledge its shortcomings like lack of updates and challenging UI features which hinder its functionality and overall user satisfaction.
Top Positive Comment
yazdankhah
Jul 11, 2018
0

It does not work at all after I upgraded it to the recent version (7/7/2018). That's why I have to replace it with an alternative.

Top Negative Comment
IcePirate
Sep 11, 2014
21

While free for non-commercial use, this is not open source software.

Be sure to read the license! 3)(d) APPLICATION might COLLECT, UPLOAD, DOWNLOAD and STORE:ANY INFORMATION and THIRD PARTY INFORMATION without confirmation and prior notice.

This is far too broad for me. I won't use it.

cubanCword
Oct 4, 2016

Thank you for pointing that out. In today's world that is unacceptable, I get needing ad revenue but that is a red flag

R0tten
Mar 5, 2020

Yeah, thanks. I will just block it in windows firewall.

bitoolean
Dec 7, 2023
0

Last update was in January 2020.

TBayAreaPat
Sep 7, 2022
0

I recommend that you don't install this. The installation is unclear. The uninstall is non-existent. I installed it under/Users/MyName. It grabbed everything on the desktop.. folder and file and put it in thumbnail. There appears to be no way to get it out of their cubes other to do a Delete which will actually put the folder in the Trash. I deleted the Nimi file under User and hoped for the best (I do keep backups) That seems to be the only way to get rid of this little monster. Poorly crafter, and as others are mentioning, it is not open source or necessarily private.

moosemoose974
Aug 5, 2021
1

Shit program. Terrible to use, even harder to uninstall. Don't put this shit software on your computer

vertigo
Feb 12, 2021
0

Folder contents don't update and constantly crashes. Even worse, it offers to save the crash report, which would suggest the purpose of doing so would be to submit it to the developers for debugging, but it offers no means of contacting them, and checking the website they just rant for several paragraphs about how their email is private. Well, way to go Nima, you've succeeded in keeping people from emailing you, including with crash reports, so your POS software can stay a POS. What a waste of time.

TheJaredWilcurt
May 6, 2020
1

Crashes on Windows 10, requires uninstalling manually:

  • Ctrl+Shift+Esc Startup right-click Nimi Places Disable
  • Delete these folders
    • C:\Program Files\Nimi Places
    • C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\.Nimi Places
  • WinKey + R regedit enter
  • Delete:
    • HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartupApproved\Run\NimiPlaces
    • HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\NimiPlaces

Then the only places referencing it will be lists of "recently ran applications" or "recently opened files".

[Edited by TheJaredWilcurt, May 06]

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What is Nimi Places?

Organizes desktop into customizable containers - showing folders (e.g.: local folders, network locations) contents, displayed as icons/thumbnails on scrollable surface. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents and PSD images, but also for supported PDF files.

Supported media formats can be quickly: previewed, listened, played using in-built multimedia fronted - with included image viewer supporting custom shaped and circular selection, and in-line playback of audio files.

Files can be labeled, customly ordered, searched by typing. There are multiple sorting options from by name to by content (that groups into sets of matching similar files).

Other management features consist of file & folder rules, time & location based settings and more.