File_uploader widget cant upload from /documents/ folder in edge

🎈 Using Streamlit
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Summary

The file uploader widget works fine for files outside of the standard windows document folder, but does not work for files in the documents folder. It throws the error:

Can’t open this file: XXXYYZZZ.com can’t open files in this folder because it contains system files.

Steps to reproduce

Code snippet:

    uploaded_file = st.file_uploader(
        "Upload a PDF to autofill",
        type="pdf",
        accept_multiple_files = False
    )

To recreate this error, use Edge, and try to upload a file by clicking on the widget (“browse”) and uploading a file from your windows standard “documents” folder.

If using the drag and drop feature (e.g. dragging and dropping a file from a folder) this doesn’t happen.

Expected behavior:

Expect that we can upload single files from documents folder, as is intended by the chromium security settings.

chrome_file_system_access_permission_context.cc - Chromium Code Search

Debug info

  • Streamlit version: 1.20.0
  • Python version: 3.8.15
  • Using pip,
  • OS version: Linux based server using kubernetes
  • Browser version: Edge Version 110.0.1587.69 (Official build) (64-bit)

Additional Information

Code deployed in company internal kubernetes cluster.

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After some troubleshooting, I imagine this could be an issue of our company internal security settings. Meaning that likely this Error is not reproducible for most users and therefore can be seen as closed.