Desktop app (Windows 1.52386.6): SendUserFile card opens a preview drawer with no save/download control, even with display: attach
Summary
In the Claude desktop app on Windows (Code tab), a file card sent from a session with SendUserFile no longer offers a download. Clicking the card opens a preview drawer, and the drawer has no save control either, so there is no way to save the file to a folder of my choosing. Until recently, clicking the card's icon opened a normal Windows save dialog.
The files are plugin .zip archives, which the drawer cannot preview anyway, so the card is a dead end for the exact file type it is meant to deliver.
Environment
- Claude desktop app for Windows: 1.52386.6 (from
AppData\Local\Claude\Logs\main.log) - Claude Code (bundled): 2.1.274 (recorded in the session transcript)
- Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
- Files: two
.ziparchives, 15 KB and 268 KB
Steps to reproduce
- In a Code tab session, have Claude send a
.zipwithSendUserFile(display: "attach", and also withdisplayunset; both tried). - Click the file card in the conversation.
Expected
A download / save-as dialog, as before, so the user chooses where the file lands.
Actual
A preview drawer opens beside the conversation. It shows nothing useful for a zip and has no download or save-to button. Right-click offers nothing. The same happens for display: "attach", which the tools reference documents as "a download card only".
Notes
- Same defect as #86337 (Windows: cards open the file instead of offering a download). Reporting separately with the current version numbers, and to record that
display: "attach"and the drawer both lack a save control. - Workarounds tried from the session side, none of which work: publishing the zip through the Artifact tool (refuses
.zip), opening a local download page in the built-in browser pane (file://is blocked,about:blank#blocked). - The only remaining route is to have the session write the file to a folder on disk, which defeats the point of a download card and is not something I want a session doing on its own.
Please restore the save dialog on the card (or add a Save button to the drawer), and document how a user is meant to save a delivered file.