Open shared links directly in native app

[DanijelD]

A few years have passed since this request and as a business this would save us allot of time and irritation. As a company we share daily hundreds of links to files via Microsoft Teams with each other.

Now the situation is as follow:

1 link is shared

2 team member clicks on the link

3 browser opens the link to the file

4 user clicks on 'open in dropbox' button

Ideal situation would be that admins and users have a File open preference, where links to files can directly open in the native apps:

1 link is shared

2 team member clicks on it and the file is synced and opened in the native app

Microsoft Teams has a great solution to this problem for Office-applications, called File open preference, see screenshot. It would be great if Dropbox could also build this feature in it's Dropbox-apps.

[Jay]

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[Jay]

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[jpegweber]

Commenting to boost this idea, as it's a good one. 

[crustiek]

I'm a power user of dropbox and this is my #1 problem with dropbox! 

My team shares dropbox links in slack, email and from airtable - and it's so annoying that they open in a web browser. Instead would love to set Dropbox to open these links in a local finder window. 

[MadeleineH]

OMG yes! PLEASE DO THIS. It would reduce so much frustration and save a lot of time.