Delphi context help says "Cannot find the C:Program FilesBorlandDelphi7Helpd7.hlp file"

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My Delphi 7 installation started giving this error. The error message shows the correct help path, but with the backslashes removed. The Help files are present in the expected location (C:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi7\Help). I'm running D7 under Windows 7. It was working previously.

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Sometimes I also get this error :

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I have searched on Google, and I find others reported the problem, but no solution has been posted.

I would try to search the system registry (`regedit`) for the string "filesborlanddelphi". If there is a match, correct it there. — Andreas Rejbrand, Feb 17 '11 at 17:43
Eek! Something is messed up. This looks like a C parser attacking your backslashes! — David Heffernan, Feb 17 '11 at 18:13
@David, more like an import from a hacked reg-file where somebody forgot to double up the backslashes... — Marjan Venema, Feb 17 '11 at 18:25
I have seen Delphi 7 give this error message. Something inside Delphi codebase "ate the backslashes". — Warren P, Feb 18 '11 at 18:44
The string "filesborlanddelphi" does not appear anywhere in the registry. — tim11g, Feb 19 '11 at 00:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '13 at 00:39

I have found that this error can be cause by help files missing from OpenHelp project.
To replicate error I would just add {$WARN} to simple project and press F1 on WARN word.
To fix it:

run delphi 7
click Help->Customize (OpenHelp window will be shown)
in OpenHelp for each of "Context", "Index" and "Link" tabs:
- select tab
- browse to C:\program files\borland\delphi7\help (or whatever your delphi installation path is)
- select missing files (in my case it was d7dopts.toc, d7dopts.hlp, d7derrs.toc and d7derrs.hlp)
- save project

Delphi context help says "Cannot find the C:Program FilesBorlandDelphi7Helpd7.hlp file"

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