So this is where the terminology is getting confusing. So can we first establish if insync supports symlinks or not?
I think from the latest discussion Ive found that the answer is no- right? As I understand it, local sync is not the same thing as a symlink, but instead rather a way to add arbitrary folders to the group of synched folders without actually moving those folders to a subfolder inside the insync folder tree.
In my case local sync doesn’t make any sense because the targets of my original symlinks are already within the folders that get synced by insync to google drive. So both my symlinks themselves and their targets are already in the folders that get synced. With anything I have in my insync folders, I never use symlinks that point to something outside my normal insync folder tree. I understand that this is what I’d normally want to use local sync for, but again that is not my scenario.