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The file picker tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about the file picker UI component in Windows and third-party applications. Topics include Windows library privacy settings that control app access to Documents, Pictures, and Videos via file pickers, as well as security vulnerabilities in browser file pickers like Chrome CVE-2025-8881 and Microsoft OneDrive's file picker feature. Users also report issues such as Thunderbird's file picker crashing with a 'filepicker was unexpectedly closed by Windows' error. Additionally, the tag touches on file picker integration in Microsoft 365 apps like Copilot Chat and Quick access in File Explorer for faster file retrieval.
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    Windows Library Privacy: Per App Access, File Pickers, and Denied Folders

    Windows gives you explicit control over which apps can read, edit, and save files in your Pictures, Videos, and Documents libraries — and, importantly, Windows will create an app‑specific folder when you deny broad access so the app can still store its output without seeing the rest of your...
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    Copilot Chat in Microsoft 365 Apps: In-Editor AI Sidepanel for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

    Microsoft is embedding Copilot Chat directly into the Microsoft 365 desktop apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — as a persistent, content‑aware sidebar that brings AI assistance to the place people actually work, reducing copy/paste, manual uploads, and app switching while...
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    Copilot Chat Now Integrated in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote | Microsoft 365 AI

    Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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    Chrome CVE-2025-8881: Patch Stops File Picker Cross-Origin Data Leak

    A newly recorded Chromium vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8881, exposes a weakness in the browser’s File Picker implementation that can be coaxed into leaking cross‑origin data when a user is tricked into specific UI gestures on a crafted page; the bug affects Google Chrome builds prior to...
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    • Forum: Security Alerts
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    Critical Microsoft OneDrive Flaw Exposes User Data via Over-Permissive OAuth Scopes

    Security researchers have uncovered a significant vulnerability within Microsoft OneDrive's File Picker feature—a discovery that casts a long shadow across the landscape of cloud-based file management and third-party integration. OneDrive, widely used by both consumers and enterprises for its...
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    • cloud integration cloud security cloud storage cybersecurity data breach data security enterprise security file picker gdpr compliance hipaa compliance oauth vulnerabilities onedrive permission risks privacy security best practices tech security third-party apps token management vulnerability disclosure zero trust
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    Get your work done faster with Quick access

    More and more of our users are storing their files in more and more places. Whether that’s in cloud locations like OneDrive and Dropbox at home, or across network shares, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint at work, the problems introduced are the same – it gets harder to access those files...
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    • cloud storage customization engagement file explorer file management file picker frequent folders navigation pane onedrive pinned folders productivity quick access recent files settings sharepoint usability user experience windows windows features windows update
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    Windows 7 Thunderbird "Save File" error

    I am running Thunderbird 2.0 and when I try to save ANY type of file to ANY location, I will get my usual screen for where I want to put the file (which this in it's-self take a long time to populate). Then when it does finally populate, when I highlight any fileloaction, I instanly get an...
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    • application bugs crash error file management file picker software thunderbird troubleshooting windows
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