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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by theaino on Saturday August 31, 2019 @10:24AM (#20846434)
No, because Dropbox is a file syncing utility so symlinks, which are special files that point to other files, should be synced as symlinks. Replacing the symlink with the target file or directory is obviously broken behavior.
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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by zimpenfish on Saturday August 31, 2019 @10:37AM (#20846524)
> symlinks, which are special files that point to other files, should be synced as symlinks

How would that work on, e.g., the iOS client? Or a Windows client, even?

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