--- a/src/ui_fileops.c	Sun Oct 14 12:40:03 2018 +0100
+++ b/src/ui_fileops.c	Tue Oct 16 19:07:11 2018 +0100
@@ -546,77 +546,6 @@
 		goto end;
 		}
 
-	/* Do not dereference absolute symlinks, but copy them "as is".
-	* For a relative symlink, we don't know how to properly change it when
-	* copied/moved to another dir to keep pointing it to same target as
-	* a relative symlink, so we turn it into absolute symlink using
-	* realpath() instead. */
-	struct stat st;
-	if (lstat_utf8(sl, &st) && S_ISLNK(st.st_mode))
-		{
-		gchar *link_target;
-		ssize_t i;
-
-		link_target = g_malloc(st.st_size + 1);
-		i = readlink(sl, link_target, st.st_size);
-		if (i<0)
-			{
-			g_free(link_target);
-			goto orig_copy;  // try a "normal" copy
-			}
-		link_target[st.st_size] = '\0';
-
-		if (link_target[0] != G_DIR_SEPARATOR) // if it is a relative symlink
-			{
-			gchar *absolute;
-
-			char *lastslash = strrchr(sl, G_DIR_SEPARATOR);
-			int len = lastslash - sl + 1;
-
-			int path_max;
-#ifdef PATH_MAX
-			path_max = PATH_MAX;
-#else
-			path_max = pathconf(sl, _PC_PATH_MAX);
-			if (path_max <= 0)
-				path_max = 4096;
-#endif
-
-			absolute = g_malloc(path_max + 1);
-
-			strncpy(absolute, sl, len);
-			strcpy(absolute + len, link_target);
-			strcpy(link_target, absolute);
-
-			char *realPath;
-			realPath = realpath(link_target, absolute);
-
-			if (realPath != NULL) // successfully resolved into an absolute path
-				{
-				g_free(link_target);
-				link_target = absolute;
-				}
-			else                 // could not get absolute path, got some error instead
-				{
-				g_free(link_target);
-				g_free(absolute);
-				goto orig_copy;  // so try a "normal" copy
-				}
-			}
-
-		if (stat_utf8(tl, &st)) unlink(tl); // first try to remove directory entry in destination directory if such entry exists
-
-		gint success = (symlink(link_target, tl) == 0);
-		g_free(link_target);
-
-		if (success)
-			{
-			ret = TRUE;
-			goto end;
-			}
-		} // if symlink did not succeed, continue on to try a copy procedure
-	orig_copy:
-
 	fi = fopen(sl, "rb");
 	if (!fi) goto end;