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add a reminder in the example without a starting /

Here's a copy and paste for terminal to set this up:

# Be sure to change:
# FOLDER_NAME   - the root folder name. 
# ACTUAL_PATH_TO_REAL_FOLDER - the path to the "real" folder.
# 
#    Example: 
#    "Drives    Users/bob/Documents/Drives"
#    .......^ this is tab (not spaces)
#    Both of FOLDER_NAME and ACTUAL_PATH_TO_REAL_FOLDER are not starting with /

sudo touch /etc/synthetic.conf
sudo chmod 0777 /etc/synthetic.conf
sudo echo "FOLDER_NAME  ACTUAL_PATH_TO_REAL_FOLDER" >> /etc/synthetic.conf
sudo chmod 0644 /etc/synthetic.conf
sudo chown root:wheel /etc/synthetic.conf