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		usaar333 on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The new Dropbox Define "work"? Dropbox has never sync'd a symlink as a symlink - it follows then on the client machine and a copy is created on the server. (Source: worked there)

hdfbdtbcdg on June 14, 2019 | [–]

When did you work there?

hdfbdtbcdg on June 12, 2019 | [–]

Hmm I'm pretty sure it used to. I used it and if it had followed symlinks that would have broken things for me and I wouldn't have used it.

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