From 23461b36984292cba422d819256469267642a524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bjarke Berg <mail@bergmania.dk>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 15:27:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Handle the case where the editorvalue is from the db and just
 is a path. (#16429)

---
 .../PropertyEditors/FileUploadPropertyValueEditor.cs      | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/FileUploadPropertyValueEditor.cs b/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/FileUploadPropertyValueEditor.cs
index 466c456058..beda0418f2 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/FileUploadPropertyValueEditor.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/FileUploadPropertyValueEditor.cs
@@ -154,6 +154,14 @@ internal class FileUploadPropertyValueEditor : DataValueEditor
             return null;
         }
 
+        if (editorValue is string sourceString && sourceString.DetectIsJson() is false)
+        {
+            return new FileUploadValue()
+            {
+                Src = sourceString
+            };
+        }
+
         return _jsonSerializer.TryDeserialize(editorValue, out FileUploadValue? modelValue)
             ? modelValue
             : throw new ArgumentException($"Could not parse editor value to a {nameof(FileUploadValue)} object.");