Taylor Raack

Agreed. I'm having the exact same issue.

Confirmed to still be an issue in 1.3.3. This is a weakness over Google's official client.

> I think this would have to be a new flag for mount, say `--use-links` or something like that which inteprets the `.rclonelink` files and turns them back into symlinks....

I've created a draft PR of a code addition to have the mount command support symbolic links. No extra mount parameters are needed; this works without any extra `--links` command...

> There are 3 mount backends - mount/cmount/mount2 and this only applies to one of them. Wow - I wondered a bit about those, and didn't realize those were any...

After some initial refactoring, I realized that symlink support down into the VFS layer means building symlink support for several other components - not just `mount` and `cmount`. I realized...

Last time I rebased my `dinoboy197/traack_symlinks` branch from rclone master, it brought in commits up through 2022-02-18.

I appreciate the encouragement! I don't have the time to dedicate to the refactor right now, but it is good to know what the appropriate direction would be if I...

Sure, that sounds fine. Let me know if you're interested in any testing or collaboration help on this one if/when you get around to it!

Cool! I found that the Java library [gnupg-for-java](https://github.com/SecureHandshake/gnupg-for-java) might be of use. It's a wrapper for the native GPG library code, which may work with smartcards. It hasn't been maintained...