Unable to Drag Hidden Files (Dot-Prefixed) into App on macOS

[wjx]

On macOS, files with names that begin with a dot (hidden files) cannot be dragged and dropped into the application.

Payload app version: 0.2.8
MacOS: Sequoia 15.1.1

[betamos]

Thanks for the report. All dot-files are ignored during the directory traversal in order to avoid unintentional privacy leaks (e.g. for .git or .env). This is exacerbated since there's no way to expand directories in the UI at the moment, which can hide them from the user.

There are also metadata files that should not leave the local drive (macOS has several of these, like .AppleDouble .DS_Store etc, and that also needs some consideration).

In this case, you have clear intent to directly use a specific file, so there should be a way to do that. I will treat this as a feature request for file filters in general including dot files/hidden that live in sub-directories.

If you've run into more use-cases involving hidden/dot-files, please let me know.