RealTimeSync: Symbolic Links

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Joern

Hello!

At first, I'd like to say a big thank you for this great software! Really useful.
Now my problem:
I'd like to use realtime-sync and it basically works. But if there are symbolic-links-folders (deeper) inside the watch-folder, it seems that filesync doesn't get a change-signal if something changes inside the symbolic-linked folder or deeper folders/files inside it. when I restart the batch-script, it syncs perfectly.
Is this an issue of the operatingsystem? I'm on Windows 11 64bit.

Many thanks in advance,

Jörn
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xCSxXenon

Yes, this is going to be because the change isn't properly being reported to RTS. I am not sure if a symbolic link behaves any different than a hard link, but I would guess a hard link would have a better shot of working the way you describe
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Joern

Hey, thanks for the quick reply,

What is RTS? So i guess you can't do anything about this, correct? I'll try hard links then.

Ahoi!

Jörn
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xCSxXenon

RTS = RealTimeSync