User library mac os

3. Сразу же после этого откроется искомый каталог «Библиотеки». В том случае, если работать с ним планируется нечасто, можно взять данный способ на заметку.

Но если предполагается обращаться к папке регулярно, можно перетянуть ее иконку в боковую панель. Таким образом, появится возможность быстрого и простого доступа к каталогу «Библиотеки».

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How to Always Show Library Folder in MacOS Catalina User Home Directory

More advanced Mac users may wish to have the user

/Library folder always visible in their Home directory for various reasons.

With MacOS Catalina, you can have the user Library folder always shown and visible by toggling a settings option in the Finder.

This article will show you how to do that, with the end result being that the active users

/Library folder is always visible in their Home folder.

Whether you frequently mess around with the users

/Library folder or you just want it visible all the time for another reason, you can make a simple adjustment to Finder View options to reveal the Library directory all of the time.

How to Display User

/Library Folder in MacOS Catalina

Here’s how to make the Library folder always visible in the users home directory in MacOS Catalina:

Go to the Mac OS Finder if you haven’t done so already

Go to the Users home folder by pulling down the “Go” menu and choosing “Home”

Locate the setting for “Show Library Folder” and toggle it so that setting is checked, this will instantly display the users Library folder in the home directory

The change is immediate with the Users

/Library folder immediately being visible when the setting is checked.

Note you MUST make this change while the users Home folder is the active Finder window, otherwise the “Show Library Folder” setting option will not be visible in View options.

If you wish to hide the user Library folder again, simply return to View options and uncheck the setting.

You can always temporarily access the User Library folder at any time through the “Go” menu as well.

For what it’s worth, this settings adjustment option is not new to MacOS Catalina (nor is hiding the User Library folder by default, which has been happening for many Mac OS releases now), and you can use the same approach for accessing and showing the user Library folder in macOS Mojave, High Sierra, and Sierra too if you happen to be using other Macs with different versions of system software.

As mentioned before, this is mostly for advanced users who frequently use the

/Library folder for any number of reasons, and the majority of Mac users are just fine ignoring this and not making that Library directory to be always visible.

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How to Show to

/Library Folder in MacOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra

The User Library folder is hidden by default in MacOS Catalina, MacOS Mojave, macOS High Sierra, and macOS Sierra, but some advanced users may wish to show and access the

/Library/ folder, which contains preference files, caches, and application support data. We’ll show you how to access the User Library folder quickly, as well as how to set MacOS Mojave / Sierra Finder to always show the User Library directory.

Because the users

/Library folder contains important data and files for Mac user accounts and apps to function, it’s generally a good idea to leave the directory and its contents alone unless you have ea specific reason to dig around, and know exactly what you’re doing. Casual users have no business in the

/Library directory. And remember, the system level /Library folder is different from the user level

How to Access User Library in MacOS Mojave, macOS Catalina, and MacOS Sierra

If you don’t need to constantly show the

/Library folder on the Mac, you can just access it when needed by using the “Go” menu:

1. From the Finder of Mac OS, pull down the “Go” menu and hold down the SHIFT key
2. Choose “Library” from the drop down list

You can also hit Command+Shift+L from the MacOS Finder to immediately jump to the

/Library directory of the active user account.

* Note that in older versions of Mac OS you need to hold down the OPTION key rather than the SHIFT key.

How to Show

/Library Folder in MacOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra

If you access user

/Library often you might want to just enable it permanently as a visible folder in the user home directory. This is a simple settings change that will cause MacOS Finder to always show the Library folder in the user home:

1. From the Mac OS Finder, go to the Users home folder
2. Pull down the “View” menu and choose “View Options”
3. Choose “Show Library Folder” in the settings options for the User home folder

This is specific to each user account on the Mac, so if you want to reveal the user account on a different account you’d need to re-enable the same setting individually.

Revealing the User Library Folder with chflags from Terminal

Another option is to use the command line to reveal the

/Library directory, like what was required in Lion when the directory first became invisible to the end user.

The above tricks also work to reveal and show the same user

/Library folder in Mac OS X versions El Capitan and Yosemite (10.11.x and 10.10.x), and presumably forward beyond macOS 10.14.x, 10.13.x, and 10.12.x.

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Show User Library Directory in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion & 10.8 Mountain Lion

Modern Mac OS releases from Mac OS X 10.7 & OS X 10.8 onward default to hiding the users Library directory, this is probably to keep people from accidentally deleting or damaging files that are necessary for OS X Lion & Mountain Lion to function properly. That is fine for novice users, but for some of us, we want to be able to access

/Library/ at will. A visible Library folder was also the default setting in past versions of Mac OS X, so here is how to get this back and make the Library folder visible if it’s hidden on your Mac.

How to Show User

/Library in OS X Lion & Mountain Lion

Launch Terminal from Spotlight, Applications > Utilities, or Launchpad -> Utilities, and enter the following command to show or hide the directory:

The users Library folder will immediately become visible again. Reverting this back to the standard Lion setting is simple too:

How to Hide User

/Library in OS X Lion & Mountain Lion (default setting)

This returns to the default setting of hiding the user Library directory:

Changes take effect immediately again, and Library becomes invisible to the user.

Update: Modern MacOS releases continue to hide the user

/Library folder, but the newest MacOS releases make accessing and showing the User

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I use [⌘ + Shift + .] to reveal all hidden files. Unless your exact wish is to show only the Library directory, this is practical and fast.

Can anyone help as to why I cannot see the my user account in the users folder? Not sure if this is the same issue, it used to be there and now isn’t. Time Machine isn’t backing it up and it did three weeks ago. More Apple aggro.

I find it absolutely great that people think that I have no right to do whatever I wan’t on a machine I paid thousands of dollars for. I bought it, it’s mine. Now grow up and mind your manners.

I couldn’t find a file, I thought I had saved. My hubby had begun a file, emailed it to me and I put it in Word for Mac and put a few hours into it (Xmas letter – have done it this way for years). And then I couldn’t find it! I phoned MS, and a fellow took charge of my computer to look for it. He said it wasn’t saved, as there was no record. After lots of chat with FB friends, I decided to write the file again and found that I had ‘saved’ it in ‘Outlook Temp’, and apparently that doesn’t really save it. I think there needs to be a warning on that. So it was a huge lesson. Thanks for all the help, and I hope my story helps some poor person in missing-file-hell.

It says permission denied…

thanks!! 🙂 terminal will always do the job xD

Why does Apple think we are f-ing stupid!

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Awsome, thank you so much.

This saved my life today.

Nevermind thank you so much J.B. Your method worked.

please help. I am enter the command

/Library/> and pressing enter. Nothing is happening. This is the first time I have ever needed to use terminal. I need my Library!

Great trick. Thanks.

Thank you. It worked.

better Go to xcode preference and then to the location tab ,You will get derived data location ,just tap on the small arrow and it will take you to the library folder whether it is hidden or not…then there you can find the simulator file in application support file…:)

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ahh thanks so much for this, i knew i was missing something when i upgraded to Mountain Lion today

This totally worked!

Awesome, worked perfectly! Thanks!

Thanks for this – saved me a lot of time.

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I love Apple but I feel very sorry to see Apple became as stupid as PCs. This OS Lion looks crap and is another step towards a mean PC Apple. They are destroying everything good. First they transformed iMovie in a toy then, Quicktime in not Pro anymore… Then, they are creating all sorts of problems to Adobe and behaving like God… or better say iGod. Now they are hiding the user Library. They started to be obsessive with control. It’s pathetic. They are doing exactly what Microsoft did on the past..

I love Apple but I feel very sorry to see Apple became as stupid as PCs. This OS Lion looks crap and is another step towards a mean PC Apple. They are destroying everything good. First they transformed iMovie in a toy then, Quicktime in not Pro anymore… Then, they are creating all sorts of problems to Adobe and behaving like God… or better say iGod. Now they are hiding the user Library. They started to be obsessive with control. It’s pathetic. They are doing exactly what Microsoft did on the past.

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I am not an expert at all. But this works for me:
Find the Library folder in FInder and move it to Favourites.
Is that easy… I think.

Access the Library by one of the means described above.

Then for perhaps the most efficient way of accessing it future:

Drag the Library Folder to Finders SideBar.

From then on accessing the Library is just one click away.

Mildly annoying, but you can always press Shift+Cmd+G in Finder and go to

/Library (or /Users//Library).

That’s /Users/ /Library

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Thank you! This saved me from pulling my hair out 🙂

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thank you for this. Was trying to find my firefox cache folder and couldn’t in Lion.

This worked like a charm

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Thank you so much for this I have been looking everywhere trying to find a way to show my library folder so I can use MacDropAny to sync my mailboxes with Dropbox and is now all sorted.

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No need to do a change to its visibility. In terminal, just “open

/Library” and it will show up in the Finder.

Good tip, I like this one as an alternative.

The command doesn’t work

Last login: Fri Jul 22 08:27:31 on console
Mac-Mini:

javalava$ chflags nohidden

/Library/
chflags: /Users/javalava/Library/: Permission denied
Mac-Mini:

I am having trouble with this as well. how can I get it to work. I don’t care that I can push Command Shift G and type it in. I just want it showing up all the time

type sudo in front of the command and type your system password when prompted.

Thanks David, it’s guys like you that save me hours of time. I really appreciate your input!

Hm, doesn’t work with my mac book ….

The mail folder seems to have vanished from application support so it looks like you can’t create custom stationery any more.. hopefully i’m wrong

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I can understand why Apple have done this. The “average User” will hardly ever access the Library. I’d also use the Go menu when I need to access it. That’s the easiest way of opening a hidden folder.

Then the “average user” won’t be browsing files with Finder. After all, in Apple’s fantasyland, users don’t need file browsers anyway. Look at iOS: It’s crippled to the point of being a gimmick because it has no user-accessible file system. No wonder that most “applications” are games or glorified browsers of one kind or another.

Why are you so pissed at apple? You can get a pc or linux or something if you want.

I love Apple but I feel very sorry to see Apple became as stupid as PCs. This OS Lion looks crap and is another step towards a mean PC Apple. They are destroying everything good. First they transformed iMovie in a toy then, Quicktime in not Pro anymore… Then, they are creating all sorts of problems to Adobe and behaving like God… or better say iGod. Now they are hiding the user Library. They started to be obsessive with control. It’s pathetic. They are doing exactly what Microsoft did on the past.

it’s not necessary to dig into terminal to unhidden the library,just go through finder and type the location of the address then change the view of finder to create a alias of the folder. It’s a shortcut!

I access my Library folder all the time for Minecraft so I will be doing this!

It’s a lot easier than that.

Just press and hold the “option/alt” key, and you can choose “Go to Library” in the Go menu of the Finder.

Good one, thanks. And, is the easiest. Should have been obvious up front by the writer. Holding Alt/Option for many icons gives you expanded options in many subtle ways (i.e., sound icon in menu bar will provided expanded sound-related preferences, pressing ALT with icons in dock will give you Force Quit or Relaunch Finder, etc)

This was the clue I needed. So easy. Makes the other “solutions” look ridiculous.

Why would you press the Option key? That’s not indicated anywhere.

Invisible, secret menus are embarrassing proof that Apple’s UI “elegance” myth is just that: a myth.

Or, if you had any idea what you were talking about, you’d understand the idea of HIDING FEATURES THAT ONLY POWER USERS NEED.

Are you really that dumb? Survey says: yes.

You are awesome. Works perfectly. That has been so aggravating. Thank you Thank you Skeptic

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I do not have devices under the Side Bar Tab in the Devices. I am using Lion. But my user library was hidden and the way to unhide by launching Terminal in Spotlight and executing the live above. I searched for my Excel templates and my Library folder for so long. This is great.

And there’s not a setting for this? Figures, Apple’s just trying to dumb down the OS. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I access the Library folder all the time.

Same here. I always need access to my Library folder. Another solution to this is to temporarily show hidden files, create an alias on your desktop, and hide again.

The library folder will still be accessible, however hidden. To access simply go into your finder preferences and select add your home folder, or your library folder to the list…. … “unofficially” 🙂

in this new os…. the terminal command to show hidden files will not work, because the folders are not hidden… just moved 🙂 i cant give out much more… i would like to cause we are so excited about it. OSX IOS oh and its not being released on the 14th lol……. but keep an eye out near then end of the month, nothing official i aint givin a date…… but ya know…. ill be bouncing in and out for the next month so once it hits, giving tips and tricks to get the most out of the worlds most advanced OS!

Don’t listen to this troll.

/library file is still there. Hiding/showing it is easy using the terminal, as shown above.

I agree with Contrarian. The terminal command works perfectly. Have no clue what hidden is talking about…?

I am forced to listen to him given the fact that he is indeed correct. it does not pop up directly after this message is inserted into the terminal

hidden is an idiot! he don’t know what he’s talking about. The terminal command works great!

Thank you! I’ve been fidgeting with Mountain Lion’s terminal, trying to “unhide” the Library. Was also wondering why my hard disk folder was missing in the sidebar. Heh, simple fix. 🙂

It is dumb when you consider that they didn’t hide the Library directory on the boot volume! Why would you show that, which is full of more-critical settings and files than the user-specific one?

Lion is a shoddy, poorly conceived release; this oversight is just one example. The broken key repeat; the failure of LaunchPad to show apps that you install; the loss of Wi-Fi connectivity whenever the computer goes to sleep and wakes up… these are others.

Meanwhile, areas that have embarrassed Apple for years (namely Finder) got NO fixes. The one longstanding defect that Lion fixes, after more than two decades, is that you can now resize windows from any edge. But of course Apple still doesn’t have the sense to put borders on its windows; apparently they’ve forgotten thousands of years of human visual experience, which dictate that it’s best to isolate the image of interest with a border or space of some kind.

While most of the points you made are true, I simply hate borders. Drop shadows are more than enough to isolate the windows from each other.

Launchpad shows installed apps on the second page

And this is why I still run a windows pc vs. my wife’s Macbook….. which I am again trying to fix after her failed attempts with non-U.S. based support.

there is a setting lol came across it by accident, go to finder then prefs, the side bar tab, then tick the library device under devices, searched the whole net, know ones found it… 😮

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