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I think the issue might be that the filepath has an escape character in it (the dollar sign, %24), and while that will work in the browser (the browser needs to escape it, in fact), it may not work with the desktop file manager.  This is why I think it works fine in the web version but not in the desktop app.

Thanks, that's most likely the problem. It doesn't seem like Itch has an alternative to turn off app downloads, so I'll try to figure out a workaround for this...in the meantime I'll just have to let people know the app version will give an error ^.^;