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  1. Hi all, As I understand, Sync now synchronizes symlinks opaquely between Linux systems, which is great. But this feature works differently in Windows. Windows symlinks are followed and their contents are synchronized instead. I was wondering whether this is a bug? I have to point out that Junction Points / Mount Points in Windows are different to Symbolic Links. I would presume Symbolic Links would get synchronized across platforms (not the contents), so that in Linux I would also get a Windows link recreated. Of course it would probably not resolve, as it's a different device, but that's not the point - if I want to use Sync for the purpose of backup, then I would like it to sync Windows symlinks too. For debugging/testing - symlinks can be created from Windows command line with admin privileges as follows (eg. for directories): mklink /D C:\target D:\sourceDir Therefore in Linux the symlink should also point to D:\sourceDir, even though in linux that's an invalid path. This should work also the other way around - at the moment linux symlinks don't get copied to Windows at all. The only problem I see with (re)creating symlinks in Windows is it requires elevated privileges, but I am sure for users who want to use that feature it won't be a problem (syncing of those could be delayed until the user confirmins the action). Thanks for a great product! All the best