Jul 22, 2011 To access the user library folder on a Mac with OS X Mountain Lion or Lion, issue the following command syntax into the Terminal app, this will. How To: Unhide User Library Folder Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks. Open a window in the Finder; Select you user folder (mine: joes10) or if your User Folder is not in the sidebar, while in the Finder hit ⇧⌘H to open directly to your User Folder; Select menu: View Show View Options or hit ⌘J; Check “Show Library Folder” in the View Options window. Apple made the user library folder hidden by default with the 10.7 release. If it's necessary to access these files to perform Adobe-related troubleshooting, use one of the following methods to make the user library content visible. Access hidden user library files Mac OS 10.7 Lion. May 16, 2014 OS X 10.9.3 Bug Hides '/Users' Folder for Some Users Updated. Contains the home folder and personal files for each user on a Mac. It's not clear why only some OS X users lose access. Dec 20, 2018 These files remain visible until the next time you use the command again or restart/shutdown your Mac. To see all your user folder’s hidden files, open your user folder and press Command+Shift+Period, and all those hidden folders appear in gray. To hide them, press that same set of keys again. Show User Library Temporarily. Sep 02, 2016 The easiest way to get to the Library for a particular user is to be logged on as that user, open Finder, go to the Finder 'Go' menu in the menu bar at the top of the screen and hold down the Option key for Library to appear. You can navigate to the Users folder by opening finder and double-clicking Users at the bottom of the Finder window.
Since Apple hid the user Library folder in Lion, there have been various methods of displaying, revealing or navigating to it. Apple have introduced a new one in 10.9. There is an option to reveal the user Library in the Finder - View Options. It only appears when the view options are selected for a window showing the user's home folder.
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And yet I feel dirty, like I'm using a Windows computer where settings are deliberately obfuscated and hidden away inside dialog boxes you can only get under special circumstances..
I would never have discovered this in a million years.. or more likely would have seen but not noticed it because it's right in front of me..
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the hint and think this is a clever solution (better than many of the other 19 ways in terms of being more direct and less of a hack.)
Excuse me I have go tell some children to go back to walking on the sidewalk.
I'm on Mavericks (10.9) but not seeing this option. Using the Go to folder menu, I open my user library folder ~/Library. I then go to View Options, but there is no option to reveal the folder. What gives?
Is there a (similar) way to view all the files in the root (/) directory? And the equivalent of cd around in them?
Not for the faint of heart or non-UNIX sorts of folks, but it might be easier than going to Terminal, &c.
Excellent. I hope this setting is kept between system updates unlike the terminal solution which needs to be applied everytime. Well, 10.9.1 will show that… :-)
A quibble for your consideration:
The option to view the user Library folder is only available for a window at the top level of the user's Home folder ( i.e. a window showing just the contents of the user's Home folder).
Other views 'showing the user's home folder' do not have a selectable option for viewing the users private Library folder. ( /Users for example )
Once selected within the user's Home folder window, however, the effect of the option is available in every view that reveals the contents of the user's Home folder.
Like I said.. a quibble.
Surely this should be in 10.9, not OS X, as it's a Mavericks-specific hint?
WARNING: To avoid accidentally deleting or corrupting a Photos library, do not alter the contents of a library in the Finder. Mac move photos from library to folder.
From OSX 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.7 Lion, the /Library and ~/Library are hidden from the Finder – to show these directories in the GUI, launch Terminal from Applications/Utilities and run the command below with sudo and enter your admin password when requested:
to hide again:
You can apply this to any directories in the filing system – so to see the hidden contents of the private folder including /etc you would apply:
But you cannot hide/show defined invisible files/folders that are preceded by a “.” with chflags
To show all hidden files and folders, that start with a ‘.’ , back to Terminal in OSX 10.9 Mavericks:
Getting back to cleanliness:
To show all hidden files and folders, that start with a ‘.’ , back to Terminal for earlier versions of OSX 10.8 and prior:
Getting back to cleanliness: