Comment 4 for bug 406930

To answer Paul's original question I'd say that the bigger issue here is option b: "the _contents_ of folders pointed by via symlinks not being recursively copied (spidered)." It seems to me that a lot of people (myself included) would like to, for example, be able to sync and backup their ~/Documents folder via UbuntuOne without manually copying & pasting. Symlinking is the way this is done by Dropbox users, so it would make sense for UbuntuOne to support this.

I recognize that symlinking isn't necessarily the most intuitive or accessible way for this to be done for the average end user. So what would ultimately be a nice feature to implement would be an option on the right click menu in Nautilus to "sync folder with UbuntuOne". That option would effectively function as a symlink on the backend, but to the end user all they need to do is choose what they're syncing via a couple of mouse clicks. Any synced directories could use the "cloud" emblem to visually represent the fact that they're synced.

Hope that made sense.