Delphi Seattle changing IDE default folder settings

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I'm trying, so far with no success, to change the default directory where the Seattle IDE prompts to save a newly-created VCL project and its units. Under

Tools | Options | Environment variables | System variables

there are a number of environment variables which begin with BDS, e.g. BDSProjectsDir & BDSUserDir which all point to various places under C:\Users.

My question is: where do these default values come from? Although they appear under "System variables" (which to me suggests the OS System variables), they are not present in my OS System variables (nor the OS User Environment variables). I've searched the entire OS Registry and none of them is found there, either.

I've tried adding User Overrides of them to the IDE Tools | Options pop-up, but these overrides are ignored when I create a new project and the Save dialog defaults to the directory under the "System variables" instead, which I specifically do **NOT* want, because where I save my Delphi files isn't even on drive C: and it is a pain to have to navigate to it every time.

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delphidelphi-10-seattle

1 Answers

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These variables are set from the IDE and promoted to the build system. You can call rsvars.bat from the bin folder to have these set in your environment.

BTW, the folder for new projects is set in Environment Options - Default project. enter image description here