Backing up folder from shortcut

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offchristianamr

Hi! Been using this lately and really enjoying it :)

I was wondering if there a way to make this work (apologies if the explanation is confusing lol):
Original Folder is on my C: drive, and I want to copy it to New Folder on my external F: drive. Original Folder contains a shortcut that points to C:\Folder_3. When mirroring Original Folder to New Folder, a copy of that Folder_3 shortcut is created. I would prefer for FreeFileSync to instead follow the shortcut and copy the entirety of Folder_3 to New Folder.

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Is this possible to set up? Thank you!
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Plerry

Did you try to follow symbolic links?