How to Create a New Top Level Folder

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Due to Apple's security measures, in newer
version of macOS, is no longer possible to
create new folders at the top level of your
hard drive. So a roundabout way is needed.

1. Using BBEdit or some other plain text
editor -- not a word processor -- create a
plain text file called "synthetic.conf".

2. Use BatChmod to make it owned by Root, and
group Wheel.

3. Set the file permissions to 644 if not
already set.

4. The contents of the file should look like
this:

newfolder     Users/foo/bar

"newfolder" is the name of the virtual folder
that will be created at the root level of
your hard drive. In this case, you would
replace "newfolder" with this:

Applications (Mac OS 9)

"Users/foo/bar" is the actual location of the
folder, which includes the actual name of the
folder at the end as well. In this case, you
would replace "Users/foo/bar" with this:

Users/YourAccountNameHere/Applications (Mac OS 9)

NOTE: It is important to ensure that the
space between the two text strings is a TAB
character, and not just a number of spaces.

So, in this case, your complete file would
look like this:

Applications (Mac OS 9)	Users/YourAccountNameHere/Applications (Mac OS 9)

Of course, "YourAccountNameHere" is your
actual account name on your machine.

Place the newly-created "synthetic.conf" file
in the "etc" directory.

Reboot your machine.

After rebooting, you should see the new
folder at the top level of your hard drive.