Symbolic link handling (Windows since Vista and Linux)

FreeFileSync offers the following two advanced options contained in each *.ffs_gui/*.ffs_batch file to configure processing of Symbolic Links (also called Symlinks or Soft Links):

Default Settings (View and edit these in the text editor of your choice):

<CopyFileSymlinks>true</CopyFileSymlinks>
<TraverseDirectorySymlinks>false</TraverseDirectorySymlinks>

"CopyFileSymlinks" defines the behavior for copying Symbolic Links pointing to files:

If set to true it copies the Symbolik Link to its destination.
If set to false the target of the link, in this case a file, is being copied instead.

"TraverseDirectorySymlinks" specifies handling of Symbolic Links to directories:

If true, they are being traversed like ordinary directories during comparison and are copied as if they were regular directories (i.e. not as Symbolic Links) during synchronization.
If false is selected, these Symbolic Links are not traversed at all. During synchronization copying them results in a direct copy of the Symbolic Link, not the target directory.

Note:
As the link's content is not parsed by FreeFileSync, this usually only makes sense when you use relative paths within your Symolic Links.