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doc: sync doesn't symlinks in dest without --link - Fixes #8749

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Nick Craig-Wood
2025-08-16 09:22:31 +01:00
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cmd/sync/sync.go
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@@ -44,9 +44,11 @@ want to delete files from destination, use the
rclone sync --interactive SOURCE remote:DESTINATION
Note that files in the destination won't be deleted if there were any
errors at any point. Duplicate objects (files with the same name, on
those providers that support it) are also not yet handled.
Files in the destination won't be deleted if there were any errors at any
point. Duplicate objects (files with the same name, on those providers that
support it) are not yet handled. Files that are excluded won't be deleted
unless |--delete-excluded| is used. Symlinks won't be transferred or
deleted from local file systems unless |--links| is used.
It is always the contents of the directory that is synced, not the
directory itself. So when source:path is a directory, it's the contents of

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docs/content/docs.md
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@@ -1687,7 +1687,8 @@ During rmdirs it will not remove root directory, even if it's empty.
### -l, --links
Normally rclone will ignore symlinks or junction points (which behave
like symlinks under Windows).
like symlinks under Windows). Ignored files won't be copied, moved or
deleted in a sync.
If you supply this flag then rclone will copy symbolic links from any
supported backend backend, and store them as text files, with a