From f62bfbb85361ab21cb8df3cd7e3913f98de5cf57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Subhra264 <59690052+Subhra264@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:05:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Desktop: Fixes #4043: File-Links with German Umlauts don't
 work (#4804)

---
 .../app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMessageHandler.ts     | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMessageHandler.ts b/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMessageHandler.ts
index 894397a4f..96d9c20d2 100644
--- a/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMessageHandler.ts
+++ b/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/useMessageHandler.ts
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ export default function useMessageHandler(scrollWhenReady: any, setScrollWhenRea
 			}
 		} else if (urlUtils.urlProtocol(msg)) {
 			if (msg.indexOf('file://') === 0) {
-				// When using the file:// protocol, openExternal doesn't work (does nothing) with URL-encoded paths
-				require('electron').shell.openExternal(urlDecode(msg));
+				// When using the file:// protocol, openPath doesn't work (does nothing) with URL-encoded paths
+				require('electron').shell.openPath(urlDecode(msg));
 			} else {
 				require('electron').shell.openExternal(msg);
 			}