Bug 13587

KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5

If you copy a symbolic link in Dolphin, it pastes the link target instead of making a copy of the symlink. If you move a symbolic link, it moves the link target instead while breaking the symbolic link you tried to move. This is a regression from earlier versions of Dolphin (not sure when was the last good version) and affects the current development version 23.03.70.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a file (I just made a basic text file called "test.txt")
2. Create two folders: "folder1" and "folder2"
3. Create a symbolic link to "test.txt" in folder1.
4. Move the symbolic link from folder1 to folder2.

OBSERVED RESULT
The "test.txt" file created in step 1 is moved to "folder2" while the symbolic link created in step 3 remains in "folder1". This link, of course, is now broken, since it still points to the original location of "test.txt".

EXPECTED RESULT
The symbolic link should have been moved from "folder1" to "folder2" and the actual "test.txt" file should never have been moved.

If you try copying the symbolic link instead of moving it, you will end up with a copy of the link target (the actual "test.txt") in folder2 instead of a copy of the symbolic link.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464225