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by hdfbdtbcdg 2559 days ago
> windows XP (the most popular OS when Dropbox came out!).

Symlinks actually worked in Dropbox when I used to use it in 2012...
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usaar333 2559 days ago
Define "work"? Dropbox has never sync'd a symlink as a symlink - it follows then on the client machine and a copy is created on the server.

(Source: worked there)

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hdfbdtbcdg 2558 days ago
When did you work there?
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hdfbdtbcdg 2559 days ago
Hmm I'm pretty sure it used to. I used it and if it had followed symlinks that would have broken things for me and I wouldn't have used it.
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