RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo was a major milestone release by Embarcadero (the current owners of Delphi).

The installer typically places a deployment file ( BDE_ENT.msi ) in a subfolder under C:\ProgramData\Embarcadero for later use. 3. Integrate Components into the IDE

In BDEAdmin, Configuration > Drivers > Paradox > NET DIR . Set this to a local path like C:\Temp\ParadoxNet . Without this, file locking across sessions fails catastrophically.

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