Open AndromedaMelody opened 1 year ago
If your program is using WinRT APIs to access files, the capabilities should work - they were designed for UWP apps. We currently do not have a plan to support the capabilities on win32 app yet, but we will explore the possibility when more apps have such requirements.
As for the detailed information for files the app has access to, it's on our to do list and it's definitely an improvement for transparency.
Summary
isolatedWin32-promptForAccess
, App can access some special folder (such as %UserProfile%/Pictures,Documents…), like UWP.Private&Security > File system
page for every app.Pitch
musicLibrary
picturesLibrary
videosLibrary
removableStorage
recordedCallsFolder
objects3D
documentsLibrary
… withoutbroadFileSystemAccess
. Many applications need't access the whole file system, which only access these special folder.broadFileSystemAccess
in UWP. The Prompt will only pop up once, and if the user approve, the application can access all file system without popping up the prompt again. For example, NanaZip is a file manager, users will get bored if pop up promet frequently.