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A short description of the issue:
In Apps Script if you get a reference to a File object and call getBlob() normally you get a blob.  If you call getBlob on a file that is a google drive shortcut you get an error instead.

Create a script with the functions below (sorry, untested but this is the gist) and give the doSubFolders a folder object where the folder contains a file that is a shortcut (preferably with a name different from the target)...

function doSubFolders(folder) {
  doFiles(folder, folder.getFiles());
}
 

function doFiles(currentFolder, files) {
  while(files.hasNext()) {
    var file = files.next();
    getCurrentName(file);
  }
}

function getCurrentName(file) {
  Logger.log(file.getName());
  var blob = file.getBlob();
  return blob;
}

...this generates an error when it encounters the shortcut...

Exception: Unexpected error while getting the method or property getBlob on object DriveApp.File.

I would expect to get a blob.