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Links to SPO always open in browser - I need native app by default
- The short answer is, you cannot. Specially since it seems you're trying to link .dmg files. Unless these apps have support for talking to SharePoint directly to edit files, which I'm not aware of them having that you're only option is utilizing OneDrive sync clients and Modifying files direct that way.
Or what we have done in the past with files like this is utilize a tool such as ZeeDrive to create "Network Drives" to the dmg files etc. And others could share file links like you have in your example to locations they have access to in ZeeDrive.
If the app you have can open SharePoint dmg files directly from the open menu some how, then you might be able to finagle something with a URL shortener etc. to allow the different URL formats to tell the OS to open the file, but that's assuming those can open a web link to edit files that way, which not many 3rd party apps do.
Anyway, I know it's not the answer you were hoping for but working with 3rd party file types is a bit tricky vs. office files.
It's OneDrive sync and ZeeDrive for us and works ok.
I currently run the trial of ZeeDrive. Seems to be the best (temporary) solution. Looking forward that @MS solves this issue...
romanbrun Yup, if everyone is trained to master OneDrive and everything is internal you can use OneDrive, but people would have to share "Folders" to documents, so you can utilize the "Link to my onedrive" feature the shared folder location, which will sync down local and can be worked on and utilized that way. But that's really the only way around it other than Zee Drive and it's direct path to the SharePoint location.
So if you don't have a massive user base that might be an alternate solution in training users to Share the file in a folder and utilizing that link to their onedrive so it just syncs into their OneDrive.