From 68a65e878f63a837e86ff9950926a396e9d0a006 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: albertony <12441419+albertony@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 08:48:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add hint about config touch and config file not found

---
 docs/content/docs.md | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/content/docs.md b/docs/content/docs.md
index a8f1f4082..7bbbbd1fe 100644
--- a/docs/content/docs.md
+++ b/docs/content/docs.md
@@ -968,8 +968,9 @@ on any OS, and the value is defined as following:
   - On Unix: `$HOME` if defined, else by looking up current user in OS-specific user database
     (e.g. passwd file), or else use the result from shell command `cd && pwd`.
 
-If you run `rclone config file` you will see where the default
-location is for you.
+If you run `rclone config file` you will see where the default location is for
+you. Running `rclone config touch` will ensure a configuration file exists,
+creating an empty one in the default location if there is none.
 
 The fact that an existing file `rclone.conf` in the same directory
 as the rclone executable is always preferred, means that it is easy
@@ -980,7 +981,13 @@ same directory.
 If the location is set to empty string `""` or path to a file
 with name `notfound`, or the os null device represented by value `NUL` on
 Windows and `/dev/null` on Unix systems, then rclone will keep the
-config file in memory only.
+configuration file in memory only.
+
+You may see a log message "Config file not found - using defaults" if there is
+no configuration file. This can be supressed, e.g. if you are using rclone
+entirely with [on the fly remotes](/docs/#backend-path-to-dir), by using
+memory-only configuration file or by creating an empty configuration file, as
+described above.
 
 The file format is basic [INI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#Format):
 Sections of text, led by a `[section]` header and followed by