Perhaps, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard could be the last Mac OS that allowed easy access to user library folder. Thereafter, we saw a number of Mac operating systems wherein accessing user library was a hard task forever the power users.
Fortunately, in newer Mac versions, the difficulty in accessing this folder has considerably reduced. Apart from its security and optimized storage features, mac Sierra – the latest macOS version, is not different from these mac versions.
Well, it’s the place where Mac power users cannot skip or avoid. It’ll contain preferences, files, cache, application support data and much more. But, for an ordinary or casual user, it should say that there is no space for them.
Jun 21, 2017 So I downloaded High Sierra and all was going well for a week (as well as to be expected I guess. Plenty of bugs but nothing in comparison to what I'm now going through. I woke up the other morning to a warning that I only had 5gb space left on my 500gb MacBook Pro that had 170gb remaining. Oct 25, 2019 However, if you are running macOS Sierra and older, you can actually hide or unhide the sidebar as you wish. And then import it back into the new library. How to import images and folders into Photos; How to switch between Libraries in Photos for Mac. When you create a new library, you may still want to go back to a previous library for.
1. Open your Finder Menu. Select Go -> Go to Folder.
2. A new Window “Go to Folder” will appear now. Enter “~/Library” in the text box (without quotes) and click Go.
3. Your hidden user library folder will be displayed now.
4. Locate the Library logo at the top of the window. Click it, drag and drop into favorites section. That’s it - your User Library will be permanently pinned into your favorites section from now onwards.
There’s always a second way – perhaps the easiest one. In this time, if you hold Option while opening Go menu in Finder, you’ll see the same Library option. From Mac Finder, if you press Command + Shift + L , you can immediately jump to this menu.
Personal library app mac. There’s a final method and it’s purely based on command lines. Open your Terminal and execute this command over there.
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
It'll make your hidden library folder into a public one.
Note: All these methods also work in Mac versions El Capitan and Yosemite. If any of these methods are not working, let me know us by your valuable comments.