Open dialog to display directory only (D4)

From	"P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
Subject	Open dialog to display directory only (D4)
Date	2015-07-20 17:15 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<mojobd$umt$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Hopefully there are still people reading this newsgroup...

I am working on a new Delphi project called DupZapper which intends to open 
a directory which contains many duplicate files (in this case, email), and 
then find the duplicates and move them to a separate ZAP directory. I can 
hard code the email directory and then use the Open Dialog to select all the 
files in the folder I want to ZAP, and perhaps that is easiest and best. But 
I would like to know how to navigate to the directory in case I want to use 
this application on a different computer or for a different user. My email 
directory is:

C:\Users\paul_000\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail\Peschoen (paul)

It would be easy enough to store this file location in a text file for the 
application so it can be edited, or perhaps it is available in the registry. 
I don't do much with Delphi lately and I'm rather rusty, and want to 
maintain at least a modicum of familiarity and competence.

Thanks,

Paul

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Open dialog to display directory only (D4) "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2015-07-20 17:15 -0400
  Re: Open dialog to display directory only (D4) "Peter Below (TeamB)" <none@address.invalid> - 2015-07-21 17:38 +0000
    Re: Open dialog to display directory only (D4) "Faxe" <Faxe@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-21 18:12 +0000
      Re: Open dialog to display directory only (D4) "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2015-07-25 23:59 -0400
  Re: Open dialog to display directory only (D4) Richard <nospam@localhost.nil> - 2015-07-22 19:19 +0200

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