UWP access denied

Question

Basically, I am having huge difficulty getting a text file to open by my UWP app. I have set the app permissions to be able to access files in \'my documents\' and other opt

Answer 1

5 months later...

It appears Microsoft have now added the capability. Simply add the 'broadFileSystemAccess' capability to the app manifest as described here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/files/file-access-permissions

Note that this still requires user input to some extent (the user must grant permission to file system access on first run of the app) but that the file/folder picker UI is not needed.

I haven't actually tried this yet but it sounds like it should do the job. I hope it helps people referring to this post in the future.

Answer 2

Yep like you've already known, a common UWP app cannot directly access some paths that is not allowed. You need a broker to help you access it using FilePicker. I believe you can found lots of articles about this.

So why you can see some notepads in the store which seems different? This is because those apps are converted apps which used DesktopBridge technology. Desktopbridge allows common desktop apps to works in UWP app container and have more privilege. Although it has some problems for path that you need to notice, like the following blogs mentioned: blog1 and blog2.