Configure Telescope to follow symlinks

[notDavid]

Hi all, new user here so bare with me;

1. Currently, when i open a folder which contains symlinks to other folders, files inside these symlinks/subfolders are not found/followed when using <leader> / to grep the root dir with Telescope.

   So, i read the docs, and came up with this config, which I was hoping might achieve this.
   It simply adds --follow to rg, however, it does not work...

2. The same issue happens when i'm using <leader> f f to find files. Files inside the symlinked subfolders are not found either.

Please advise, all tips are welcome :-)
Thank you!

myPluginConfig.lua

-- every spec file under the "plugins" directory will be loaded automatically by lazy.nvim
--
-- In your plugin files, you can:
-- * add extra plugins
-- * disable/enabled LazyVim plugins
-- * override the configuration of LazyVim plugins

return {
"nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim",
  opts = {
    defaults = {
      vimgrep_arguments = {
        'rg',
        '--vimgrep',
        '--color=never',
        '--no-heading',
        '--with-filename',
        '--line-number',
        '--column',
        '--smart-case',
        '--hidden',
        '--follow',
      },
    },
  },
{
  "nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim",
  opts = {
    filesystem = {
      filtered_items = {
        hide_dotfiles = false,
      },
    },
  },
},
}

folder_structure.log

❯ tree -l
.
├── sub_folder_1 -> /Users/david/tmp/1
  └── this_is_NOT_found.txt
├── foo
│   └── bar
│       └── this_is_found.txt
└── sub_folder_2 -> /Users/david/tmp/2
  └── this_is_NOT_found.txt
5 directories, 3 files

[notDavid]

...it was just { and } in the wrong place / syntax issue (but no errors when loading.)

return {
  {
    "nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim",
    opts = {
      defaults = {
        vimgrep_arguments = {
          "rg",
          "--vimgrep",
          "--hidden",
          "--follow",
        },
      },
    },
  },

  {
    "nvim-neo-tree/neo-tree.nvim",
    opts = {
      filesystem = {
        filtered_items = {
          hide_dotfiles = false,
        },
      },
    },
  },
}