Sync of windows symbolic links pointing to UNC path

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choby

Hi,
I'm syncing windows symlinks (mklink), which are pointing to an UNC path, and it turns out the synced links don't work.
From windows GUI its actually impossible to debug because the destination path seems to be correct, windows just says the destination doesn't exist.

But if I launch a CMD and do a DIR, I can see the difference :
The original symlink target is [\\server\share\path\file]
While the synced symlink is : [UNC\server\share\path\file]

Any ideas why the symlink is altered during the syncing ?
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Zenju

The issue has been fixed. Thanks for the report!
http://www.mediafire.com/file/d5y9vkwp9dd98ds/FreeFileSync_9.1_beta_Windows_Setup.exe

PS: The symlink target is not really altered, but Windows stores symlink content using the NT namespace format, not Win32. FFS generally handles this, but missed this case.
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choby

Awesome, I'll try this version now
Thank you Zenju
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choby

It's working for me now, thanks again