From 3e35e2db7692cac18747d508f3c90c26d40d737d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:51:00 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/gui2/dnd.py | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/dnd.py b/src/calibre/gui2/dnd.py
index cfdaab2b58..5b7c5e509c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/dnd.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/dnd.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from threading import Thread
 from qt.core import QDialog, QDialogButtonBox, QImageReader, QLabel, QMimeData, QPixmap, QProgressBar, Qt, QTimer, QUrl, QVBoxLayout
 
 from calibre import as_unicode, browser, prints
-from calibre.constants import DEBUG, iswindows
+from calibre.constants import DEBUG, ismacos, iswindows
 from calibre.gui2 import error_dialog
 from calibre.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
 from calibre.utils.filenames import make_long_path_useable
@@ -389,9 +389,10 @@ def has_firefox_ext(md, exts):
 
 
 def set_urls_from_local_file_paths(md: QMimeData, *paths: str) -> QMimeData:
-    # see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-134073
     md.setUrls(list(map(QUrl.fromLocalFile, paths)))
-    raw = bytes(md.data('text/uri-list'))
-    raw = raw.replace(b'[', b'%5B').replace(b']', b'%5D')
-    md.setData('text/uri-list', raw)
+    if ismacos:
+        # see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-134073
+        raw = bytes(md.data('text/uri-list'))
+        raw = raw.replace(b'[', b'%5B').replace(b']', b'%5D')
+        md.setData('text/uri-list', raw)
     return md