By default, the widget connects to a cloud provider (e.g. Bytescale) and uploads/saves the files there.

In my use case, however, I don't need to actually save the files. I just need to read their textual data. (The files I am working with are text and/or JSON files, not images. My workflow is basically (1) Read the raw text of files from the filesystem; (2) do something with that raw text.)

Is there a way to do this? Can I force the widget to not call the cloud storage provider?