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[civic surge]

This is a screenshot of how uploading looks.
The desktop shortcut shows me an empty folder (which it isn't)

When I try drag and dropping my files into Vesktop, it just refuses to. Mainly because it's not from Pictures, or downloads, or videos. Uploading from clipboard is fine.e

You can clearly see the picture preview in Vesktop being blank.

If this helps

[zealous portal]

This is due to Flatpaks only being able to see the parts of the OS (as they are sandboxed), if you want to give Vesktop access to the desktop folder you need to give Vesktop's Flatpak the "xdg-desktop" filesystem permission, a list of these permissions can be found here; https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html
I would recommend using Flatseal to add these, you can install Flatseal from Flathub and it allows you to change the sandbox settings for any Flatpak you have installed, just find Vesktop in the list and scroll down to the "Filesystem" section, then add the permissions (example in the screenshot).
You can also change these permissions via the terminal with this command; sudo flatpak override dev.vesktop.Vesktop --filesystem=home (in this case it gives vesktop read/write access to your home folder, if you want this to be read only use --filesystem=home:ro instead)

[civic surge]

aha, i see, so can i also grant it access to the entire home folder?

[zealous portal]

You can do any folder, but the home folder is most convenient obviously

[strong delta]

@crystal latch

[crystal latch]

what