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homestead-7: Unable to mount one of your folders. Please check your folders in Homestead.yaml

When I launch homestead, I get the error: homestead-7: Unable to mount one of your folders. Please check your folders in Homestead.yaml

I'm noticing also, that my local folder and the vm's folder are not syncing. I've found others with the same issue on here but none of the solutions seem to be working for me. Here is what I have for folders in Homestead.yaml

folders:
    - map: ~/Users/myusername/Desktop/Homestead/nadias
      to: /home/vagrant/nadias
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Cronix
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In linux, ~ is the current users home dir. So you're basically repeating yourself and saying /Users/myusername/Users/myusername/Desktop/Homestead/nadias.

Try

~/Desktop/Homestead/nadias

or

/Users/myusername/Desktop/Homestead/nadias

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