Creating a symlink is a single system call, so that hasn't changed in years, so there's nothing that can go wrong or change here. I've heard anyone mentioning *.symlink files, which is probably related to you using Drivepool. I've heard of that tool, but I've never used it, but this since more like ...

Hi. I have a problem with symlinks. Since maybe two weeks back, the AMC script moves the file but makes it a .symlink in the destination folder. Example (what it should do and always done before) Qbittorrent downloads to E:/Download/movie.mkv AMC move it to E:/Movies/movie/movie.mkv and symlink it ...