Hi @Jeff_S,
Symlink support is not yet in our pipeline. You can check this help article for more information: https://help.insynchq.com/en/articles/6204419-how-to-sync-files-that-are-in-a-symlinked-folder
Thank you!
Hi, @mia, are there any news about Linux symlink support in InSync in near future, after 2 years from your last response? This is the ONLY think that stops me from using InSync, because I use symlinks in my folder structure a lot! And Google Drive supports symlinks well too!
Hello, @Murz! Symlinks and any type of shortcuts are not supported on Insync.
Do you mind walking me through your folder structure and how you use symlinks?
@mia, yes - sure, will be happy to share the use cases, if it can help with development!
The main use case: In many projects, I use per-month temporary folders to store some temporary files and clean up old temporary files later (after 6+ months). And have a symlink to the current month, to make it convenient to quickly find the current month folder.
So, the structure is:
- /home/murz/projects/My Awesome Project One (directory)
- - temp-archive (directory)
- - - t2025-10 (directory)
- - - - [some files here]
- - - t2025-11 (directory)
- - - - [some files here]
- - - t2025-12 (directory)
- - - - [some files here]
- - temp-current (symlink to "./temp-archive/t2025-12")
Also, I use symlinks between projects a lot, to reuse the same libraries, like this:
- /home/murz/projects/MyProject1
- - [project1 files]
- - lib1 (a directory with some files)
- /home/murz/projects/MyProject2
- - [project2 files]
- - lib1 (symlink to "../MyProject1/lib1")
Also, there are symlinks to other directories outside of my home directory:
/home/murz/projects/logs (symlink to "/var/log/projects")
/home/murz/projects/MyProject777/db (symlink to "/opt/docker/db777/data")
...etc
I don’t want to upload them to Google Drive, just want to keep the symlinks.
And I want to keep the /home/murz/projects directory in sync on my work computer, home computer, and laptop, using Google Drive and InSync app!
All this works well locally, but when I turn on InSync synchronization, I get a lot of problems with syncing symlinks!
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Hi @Murz! Thank you very much for sharing the details of your workflow! While I cannot make a promise on the timeline, rest assured that this has been forwarded to our team so we can revisit this when lining up additional features for development. 
We definitely need this! This is a dealbreaker for lots of us and the reason we are choosing rclone instead. @mia Do we have any updates on this?
I really like InSync’s easy to use approach and this seems like a big missing piece…
I use symlinks similarly to what @Murz described.
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Thank you for upvoting this feature and our sincere apologies for the lack of updates. We are still prioritizing sync and performance issues, but highly appreciate feedback and feature requests so we have a better idea what direction to take moving forward.
Looking at the use case described by @Murz, am I understanding that you only need Insync to create a sort of metadata file for the symlink? If so, we’d like to ask a few more questions! Most of the use cases here are looking for symlink support similar to Insync 1.x, which syncs the target folder/location to the cloud. If you don’t want the files to be uploaded…
- What would be the main reason to not upload the actual files?
- How do you envision syncing the files across multiple devices if only the symlink/metadata exists in the cloud?
Alternately, users may also explore Local Selective Sync (included in this guide)-- this allows you to sync any local folder to your preferred location in the cloud 
Happy to answer any other questions or concerns you might have!