[DUG] The "xxx.bdsproj.local" file frustration

[Steve Peacocke]

Good morning all,

Re: Delphi 2007

This morning I sent an Auckland collegue a zipped file of code for a
project I am working on here. What was NOT included was any of...

xxx.dsk
xxx.cfg
xxx.dof

These were removed as they can sometimes (dsk especially) contain
references to specific directories.

However, my collegue said he had trouble compiling the project as
Delphi wanted to look in a specific directory for some of the source
code.

#&*@^%!

OK, looking at all the project files I foind, in the xxx.bdsproj.local
file, directories even relating to a drive "S:\"and directory that has
never, ever, been access on this computer. Some older projects once
accessed these - however this project had been created from new on
this computer that does not contain an S: drive.

I took a look at every directory in any selection in both the Tools
and the Project menu without finding any references.

I even renamed the file to "old_xxx.bdsproj.local" and then loaded the
project again. All good I thought, but then I took a look at the new
"xxx.bdsproj.local" that Delphi had helpfully created. There were the
offending S:\ directories and others.

Can anyone enlighten me as to where Delphi is getting these from and
why it insists on writing them to the project? And while you are at
it, can anyone tell me how to distribute my project to an external
collegue without it wanting to look in a directory that doesn't exist
on his computer?

Thanks

Steve

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Steve Peacocke
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