openURL broken on MAC

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I also found this other thread on the topic - following up there.

UI.openURL( local_path ) doesn't work on Mac OSX

I’d recommend using Ruby’s methods to properly encoding URIs to make your code more robust. You never know when you suddenly have other characters than spaces. https://medium.com/@rainerborene/7-ways-to-encode-urls-in-ruby-c15078a7d6bc Reading this thread it sounds like the SU2019.3 bugfix to UI.openURL had some additional side effects. The reason we changed it was because it was not possible to open URLs with anchors (including #). Other important characters would also be encoded making it …