vitalstates

hello I'm returning to delphi after a bit of absense...still on XE5 and first post here as the developer network seems to have vanished... this is an old chestnut and the search engines return loads of questions with no answers. I cannot get the initaldir to work in open dialog. I have resorted to hard coding exact locations, e.g c:\pathname\directory and even c:\ but nothing works, the opendialog always opens in mydocuments(win10 and win11) does anybody have a view on this?

Thanks for the reply....I'm embarrased to say I've solved the problem...I had set initialdir after the opendialog.execute.... uber stupid on my part....it's a good job I've retired.... apologies and thanks for looking