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<H3 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Symbolic link
handling <SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">(Windows since Vista and
Linux)</SPAN></FONT></H3>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">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):</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Default
Settings (View and edit these in the text editor of your choice):</FONT></P>
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			<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&lt;CopyFileSymlinks&gt;true&lt;/CopyFileSymlinks&gt;<BR>&lt;TraverseDirectorySymlinks&gt;false&lt;/TraverseDirectorySymlinks&gt;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;<I>CopyFileSymlinks</I>&quot;
defines the behavior for copying Symbolic Links pointing to files:</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 2cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">If
set to <I>true</I> it copies the Symbolik Link to its destination.<BR>If
set to <I>false</I> the target of the link, in this case a file, is
being copied instead.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">&quot;<I>TraverseDirectorySymlinks</I>&quot;
specifies handling of Symbolic Links to directories:</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 2cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">If
<I>true</I>, 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.<BR>If <I>false</I>
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.</FONT></P>
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	<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
	<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note:</B><BR>As the link's
	content is not parsed by FreeFileSync, this usually only makes sense
	when you use relative paths within your Symolic Links.</FONT></P>
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