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#1 Wrongly assumes that dcp and bpl directories are located under public\documents

Milestone: 1.0

Status: open

Owner: Thomas Mueller

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Updated: 2025-11-05

Created: 2025-11-05

Creator: Thomas Mueller

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The dcp and bpl directories under public\documents are only used in the Delphi standard installation. If the user did a personal installation these directory c:\users\<username>\documents is used instead.</username>

Unfortunately the only way to get the actual path for this apparently is to parse the rsvars.bat file (or execute it and examine the environment variable %BdsCommondDir%.

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-The dcp and bpl directories under public\documents is only used in the Delphi standard installation. If the user did a personal installation these directory c:\users\&lt;username&gt;\documents is used instead.
+The dcp and bpl directories under public\documents are only used in the Delphi standard installation. If the user did a personal installation these directory c:\users\&lt;username&gt;\documents is used instead.

 Unfortunately the only way to get the actual path for this apparently is to parse the rsvars.bat file (or execute it and examine the environment variable %BdsCommondDir%.

Wrongly assumes that dcp and bpl directories are located under public\documents

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#1 Wrongly assumes that dcp and bpl directories are located under public\documents

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