Symbolic links downloaded as target file

[cyberduck]

5921731 created the issue

I am trying to mirror a remote FTP directory that contains a number of symbolic links. The symbolic links are recognized as links in the "Get Info" panel. When Cyberduck downloads one of the symbolic links the local directory ends up containing the target of the link instead of a link. The permissions of the local copy are also wrong (-rwxr-xr-x instead of -rw-r--r--).

All of this leads me to conclude that even though Cyberduck understands that the file is a link it resolves the link and transfers the destination file instead of creating a link locally. I think this behavior is wrong or at least warrants a preferences setting.

[cyberduck]

@dkocher commented

#1918 closed as duplicate.

[cyberduck]

@dkocher commented

#2449 closed as duplicate.

[cyberduck]

@dkocher commented

The difficulty in implementing this behaviour is that the symbolic link may point outside of the directory hierarchy we are downloading.

[cyberduck]

@dkocher commented

Some work in 9f9ed3b.

[cyberduck]

@dkocher commented

Will implement to recreate symbolic links if pointing to a file also included in the transfer. This will work for uploads with SFTP and downloads to Mac OS X.

[cyberduck]

@dkocher commented

See also #5645.

[cyberduck]

@dkocher commented

In 2697e98. Introduce new boolean properties path.symboliclink.resolve and local.symboliclink.resolve to resolve files instad of creating symlinks when set to true. On Mac, both settings are set to false by default, on Windows links are always resolved.