Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save

Some Windows users are seeing 32-bit applications failing to copy, save, or attach files, according to Redmond itself. The failures are intermittent, and affect apps that are large-address aware and use the CopyFile API on Windows 10 or 11, Microsoft wrote this week on the Windows Health Dashboard. "You might have …

[Henry Wertz 1]

I'd make a smart-assed comment but... (thanks snap!)

I'd make a smart-assed comment here... but, courtesy of snap, I had my (snap-based) copy of firefox lose it's ability to save files for a bit just last night! I had a swap-storm (from running entirely too much stuff), firefox then couldn't save. (This doesn't make sense but...) snap restricts where firefox can save files, so it uses "xdg-portal" to save outside that area... (to me it doesn't make sense, it's jumping through a hoop to just be able to save wherever anyway.. so why have the restriction to begin with? Anyway...) I suppose something timed out and it decided xdg-portal was gone... I don't know, whatever happened saves didn't work for a good while, then later on they started working again.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I'd make a smart-assed comment but... (thanks snap!)

No such issue with this Mac!

[Captain Scarlet]

Re: I'd make a smart-assed comment but... (thanks snap!)

Unless you run Windows 10 on your overpriced Macintosh.

[unimaginative]

Re: I'd make a smart-assed comment but... (thanks snap!)

A Mac has no bugs caused by security features it does not have. How impressive.

I do not think the OS even has containerisation at all.

[DoContra]

Re: I'd make a smart-assed comment but... (thanks snap!)

(snip)so it uses "xdg-portal" to save outside that area... (to me it doesn't make sense, it's jumping through a hoop to just be able to save wherever anyway.. so why have the restriction to begin with? Anyway...)(snip)

To reduce the attack surface Jonny RCE has on your system (can't write a file if the system tells you to pass out ;-), and going thru xdg-portal is user-visible at least); splitting hairs it may be and it probably won't stop an RCE commandeering your firefox to act as a proxy or cryptocurrency mining, but the cost isn't (usually) that big.

xdg-portal also plays an eye-of-the-beholder important role in "non-hardened" firefox installations: showing native file dialogs (that's why I have it enabled).

[ThatOne]

Feature, not bug

Another reason to drop those quaint old programs and get an exciting, fresh Office 365 subscription instead!...

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