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by theaino 2484 days ago
No, because Dropbox is a file syncing utility so symlinks, which are special files that point to other files, should be synced as symlinks. Replacing the symlink with the target file or directory is obviously broken behavior.
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> symlinks, which are special files that point to other files, should be synced as symlinks

How would that work on, e.g., the iOS client? Or a Windows client, even?