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@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@
 
 ## Debugging Galaxy in VS Code 
 
-The following instructions assume that you have cloned your Galaxy fork into the `~/galaxy` directory and have created a VS Code workspace per instructions [here](./debugging_tests.md)
+The following instructions assume that you have cloned your Galaxy fork into the
+`~/galaxy` directory and have created a VS Code workspace per instructions
+[here](./debugging_tests.md).  Additionally, we assume you have configured
+Galaxy and are using ${workspaceFolder}/config/galaxy.yml as your galaxy
+configuration file (so, not the default .sample). If you are still using the
+default configuration, simply `cp config/galaxy.yml.sample config/galaxy.yml`
+and it should work fine.
+
 
 1. Add the following code snippet to `~/galaxy/.vscode/launch.json` (create the file if it does not already exist)
     ```