FFS8.5 and symbolic Link in ubuntu

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alain.roger

Hi,

i'm testing freefilesync under ubuntu 16.04. While it was great tool under windows 7, since i migrated to linux Kubuntu 15.04 (later 16.04) i have some issue to sync my home directory.

For example in rsync we are able to avoid *.socket* files sync. We do it using --no-specials.
However rsync is able to sync symbolic links.

When i run a job test on my /home directory, i get an error "Cannot copy symbolic link" on ".face.icon" even i set in synchronization settings "Include Symbolic Links > Direct"
Error Code 95: Not supported operation (symlink)
How can i fix that ?

thx
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Zenju

Is rsync able to copy the same symlink without error?