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Arthur, monitoring a directory via a SYMLINK is not supported by Windows. It has nothing to do with FFS or RTS.
RTS change detection =/= FFS difference detection.
The problem here lies in what triggers the sync. FFS uses user interaction to trigger it, where RTS monitors changes to trigger a sync ...

https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1081


Thanks Zenju.
I had read the topic which you refered. However I has a doubt about the comparasion between RealTimeSync's(RTS) detection algorithm and FreeFileSync's(FFS) comparasion algorithm. When in FFS, it is valid for detecting any ...

viewtopic.php?t=1081 Zenju, 22 Aug 2019, 13:03

Thanks.

RealTimeSync can recoginze windows symbolic link when first starting. However during its running, it cannot recursively recoginze the changing of symbolic-linked folder, which makes changing detection failed and file-sync failed eventually.

As is illustrated below:
1. a simbolic link is created ...