{"id":1237,"date":"2017-12-27T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2025-02-13T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:44:54","slug":"synctime-follow-hard-and-symbolic-links-and-finder-aliases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/synctime-follow-hard-and-symbolic-links-and-finder-aliases\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow hard and symbolic links and Finder aliases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SyncTime detects <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hard_link\">hard links<\/a> on the source and recreates them on the destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Symbolic links and Finder aliases are not followed, but copied as a link. These links can generally not be followed in sandboxed apps from the Mac App Store. If you want to copy files pointed to by a symbolic link or a Finder alias, you can create separate sync items that sync these files and create a <a href=\"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/synctime-sync-groups\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1180\">sync group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SyncTime detects hard links on the source and recreates them on the destination. Symbolic links and Finder aliases are not followed, but copied as a link. These links can generally not be followed in sandboxed apps from the Mac App Store. If you want to copy files pointed to by a symbolic link or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-sync-time-help-post","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-synctime-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}