Apps / Software :: Using Modern Skype App - Want To Change Picture?

Jul 26, 2013

Skype-Modern App

Ok, I'm using the Modern Skype app and I want to change my picture.

So I click on my user pic and I am taken to My Pictures folder.

But I don't wanna be there, so I "Go Up" to the Users Folder and click/open Play. But I do not see App Data listed.

What I would like to do is browse to this specific folder without leaving the Modern Skype app.

c:UsersPlayAppDataRoamingSkypePictures

Why? Because that is where the picture I wish to use is located. I am well aware that I could drop out of the Modern interface and copy/move the file from there to the My Pictures folder.

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