I had renamed the class file as I was trying to compare 2 versions of the class (from different patches). However when trying to open the file, it doesn't show any source and it gave no indication it had failed or done anything. When I eventually renamed the file back to match the class name, it all worked fine.
A warning message or some clue as to the problem would have saved a lot of frustration about why the decompile was not working.
Windows 10 jd-gui-windows-1.4.0.zip