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Both these Library folders are hidden, but inside them are folders and files that hold things like preferences for apps. In this article, we’ll tell you how you can view hidden files on your Mac and make your Library folder visible. What are the hidden files on Mac? The hidden files are. For a detailed presentation of showing the hidden library folder on Mac OS X and saving it for easy access later on, check out the video tutorial embedded above. As always, if you find this video helpful, I would really appreciate a thumbs up and you may also want to.
Here’s how to enable the hidden Library folder on your Mac running macOS Sierra, OS X El Capitan or OS X Yosemite.
Most users will prefer to only interact with parts of Apple’s Mac platform that the company has deemed important and needed enough to actually expose to each user. Of course, depending on how an individual has an account set up will determine how it’s actually used and interacted with, but more often than not, the average user doesn’t like to deviate from a provided path.
Other users however, such as the more technical proficient or curious, like to take control of everything that’s going on with their computer, which includes accessing the hidden Library folder within a Mac’s operating system.
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The mysterious Library folder, which is not only present in macOS Sierra, but also in OS X Yosemite and El Capitan, is where Apple chooses to hide caches and configuration settings for individual apps. Not exactly useful to most MacBook or iMac owners, but still interesting enough for the power users out there. Below, we’re going to take a quick look at how to get up and running with that hidden Library folder on a Mac.
Step 1: First and foremost, you’re going to need to launch Finder on your Mac. Next from the Mac menu bar on top left, navigate to Go > Go to Folder , as shown in the screenshot below.
Step 2: You will now get a prompt to type in the directory you want to go to. Type ~/Library and then click on Go button.
Step 3: And there you have it. In a few simple steps you’ve managed to instantly access what was a previously unknown and hidden folder within macOS. However, accessing this folder frequently in this manner can cause slight frustration. Luckily, there’s an easy way to make the Library folder always visible. When in the Library folder, click and hold the Library icon shown on the top of the Finder window and drag it in Favorites column in the sidebar.
That’s it. The hidden Library folder in will now be always and easily accessible from within Favorites in Finder .
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I am getting 'permission denied'. I am the administrator so I don't understand why I am getting this.
You might have to sudo. On my Snow Leopard, I see that the directory is root:admin, so you shouldn't need to sudo, but you might as well try it anyway.
sudo did the trick. Thanks.
Alternatively, after opening the library folder, using the Go menu, you can drag the folder's icon in the title bar to the Dock, Tool Bar, and/or the Side Bar.
Let me rephrase for clarity:
After opening '~/Library' using the 'Go...' menu, you can drag the proxy icon (the icon in the titlebar) to the sidebar, etc.
After opening '~/Library' using the 'Go...' menu, you can drag the proxy icon (the icon in the titlebar) to the sidebar, etc.
Freeware for that - allows you to temporarily (or permanently) hide / unhide files and folders. Basically, a GUI for those who don't want to mess with terminal.
http://gotoes.org/sales/ShowHiddenFilesMacOSX/
http://gotoes.org/sales/ShowHiddenFilesMacOSX/
That utility is for globally turning off and on the behaviour of hiding files. I don't have Lion yet, but I imagine by showing hidden files globally that way, you'd be able to Get Info on a file and turn off its individual visibility.
All you need to do, on a per use basis, is hold down the OPTION key while selecting GO from the FILE MENU; Library automagically appears in the list.
To save Snow Leopard users time: this doesn't work in Snow Leopard.
I tried it and got this result:
dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache
This is a simple but important hint. Thank you.
What would be a good way to check visibility of a folder, so visibility can be toggled?
This works for toggling visibility of the user library folder. Is there a better way?
how do i install Quartz Composer? i can't find it in installer.
Works great, thanks for the hint. I did run into one hiccup though. I think this was just a random isolated instance but just in case anyone else gets weird behavior, repair your permissions. I changed the permissions of my Library folder and my downloads folder would appear empty (it wasn't empty before) and random files ranging from resource folders to language files and pretty much anything else you can think of was constantly appearing and disappearing.
I performed this hint on a fresh install of lion and it worked perfectly.
End result: Hint works as described, if you run into weird behavior just repair your permissions and try again.
I performed this hint on a fresh install of lion and it worked perfectly.
End result: Hint works as described, if you run into weird behavior just repair your permissions and try again.
How To Find The Hidden Library On Mac
A pure AppleScript way to toggle user library folder visibility:
Mac Finder Show All Files
Thanks! I've been looking for this folder for weeks.
Access Hidden Library On Mac
It's worth mentioning that installing the system update from 10.7.2 to 10.7.3 resets the user Library to be hidden again, so you'll need to run this command after any system update.
How To Access Library Mac
When you launch Terminal, you're in your user home folder anyway, so you only need to type
chflags nohidden Library
The tilde and slash are superfluous.
chflags nohidden Library
The tilde and slash are superfluous.