The files are on servers and the structure can't change. I'm not going to be forced to restructure my files to accommodate the syncing platform. Personally I need to have #2 and nothing else is an option for me. Well them abstract the choice to settings and allow the users to make the choice! It seems as though people are having different positions on the way Mega should handle symlinks. If mega isn't supporting this it indicates bigger problems internally, and I'm going elsewhere. As it is, my files are NOT getting backed up. I want Mega to follow the symlinks and backup my files to Mega. I'm very frustrated that Mega doesn't support symlinks to backup my files as I need, the way Dropbox backed them up for YEARS until they JUST recently made a change in the last 6 months to ruin it (which is why I left Dropbox). :-) Original frustrated post below (written before I knew syncing symlinks worked at least in newer versions of linux). You can sense the passion and investment I have in this software and this problem.

This would at least allow me to do this workaround since following of symlinks is not working on these servers. You can program the software to see the sync folder pairs that exist and not do an endless loop etc.

However not syncing symlink folders for older versions like Ubuntu 14.04 (even though for Dropbox they did.) Would love a fix for this if possible (considering Dropbox had it working) Also there's the second bug I point out with creating a sync folder pair from an outside folder inside of an already synced folder. Edit: Symlinks appear to be working as I would like for at least newer versions of Linux.

Megasync password forget