From 672d07e1e2a3fd8f0cce21fc162b596424e17284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oscar Hinton <oscar@oscarhinton.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:44:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Change download to happen in the renderer (#365)

---
 .../services/electronMainMessaging.service.ts         | 11 -----------
 .../services/electronPlatformUtils.service.ts         | 11 +++++++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/electron/services/electronMainMessaging.service.ts b/src/electron/services/electronMainMessaging.service.ts
index c620fd660b..69d5b1ba12 100644
--- a/src/electron/services/electronMainMessaging.service.ts
+++ b/src/electron/services/electronMainMessaging.service.ts
@@ -19,17 +19,6 @@ export class ElectronMainMessagingService implements MessagingService {
             return dialog.showMessageBox(options);
         });
 
-        ipcMain.handle('saveFile', (event, options) => {
-            dialog.showSaveDialog(windowMain.win, {
-                defaultPath: options.fileName,
-                showsTagField: false,
-            }).then(ret => {
-                if (ret.filePath != null) {
-                    fs.writeFile(ret.filePath, options.buffer, { mode: 0o600 });
-                }
-            });
-        });
-
         ipcMain.handle('openContextMenu', (event, options: {menu: RendererMenuItem[]}) => {
             return new Promise(resolve => {
                 const menu = new Menu();
diff --git a/src/electron/services/electronPlatformUtils.service.ts b/src/electron/services/electronPlatformUtils.service.ts
index fd7980d342..a3db37dc7d 100644
--- a/src/electron/services/electronPlatformUtils.service.ts
+++ b/src/electron/services/electronPlatformUtils.service.ts
@@ -97,10 +97,13 @@ export class ElectronPlatformUtilsService implements PlatformUtilsService {
     }
 
     saveFile(win: Window, blobData: any, blobOptions: any, fileName: string): void {
-        ipcRenderer.invoke('saveFile', {
-            fileName: fileName,
-            buffer: Buffer.from(blobData),
-        });
+        const blob = new Blob([blobData], blobOptions);
+        const a = win.document.createElement('a');
+        a.href = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
+        a.download = fileName;
+        win.document.body.appendChild(a);
+        a.click();
+        win.document.body.removeChild(a);
     }
 
     getApplicationVersion(): Promise<string> {