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thanks!
OK, I have a solution. Apparently it is because the computers were connected through sftp, and sftp doesn't handle symlinks too well.
When I connect the computers with sshfs, it works (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/242079/how-to-copy-symlinks-as-symlinks-from-one-machine-to-another)

Hi, I have 2 laptops connected with an ethernet cable, both running Linux Mint 19.3 MATE. I'm using freefilesync version 11.16. I want to use FreeFileSync to sync both laptops. This works, but the settings regarding how to handle symlinks seem to be ignored. Whatever the settings (don't follow symli...

Hi, the manual says there's an ftp configuration dialog that pops up after clicking the cloud icon, but I cant find either. Where is the ftp dialog? Where is the cloud icon?
Using version 10.6 on linux
tnx