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When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. This hint shows. We've been building a large open source software on a variety of platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, 32-bit and 64-bit) for several years without troubles. Lately however, the Mac OS X build (64-bit) stopped working correctly and started to crash randomly. It more or less coincided with an update of Mac OS X on our build machine from 10.7 to 10.8.2 (but the compiler toolchain didn't change.

  1. Method 2: Go to the Finder (or desktop). Hold the Option key on your keyboard, and click the Go menu at the top of the screen. With the Go menu open, you'll notice that pressing and releasing Option will display or hide the Library choice in this menu. Select Library from the Go menu (while.
  2. By default, the User Library folder is hidden in Mac OS 10.7 and above. We'll cover a few different methods to easily access this hidden folder. The User Library is home to many 'under the hood' files and folders that correspond to the various Apps and system processes in your computer.
  3. Like any operating system, macOS keeps important files hidden to prevent them from being deleted and, as a result, from system damage. However, sooner or later there may be a reason for making them visible. For example: It may be necessary to delete some OS X.
  4. Jun 10, 2015  Up to OS X 10.7 Lion, accessing the Library folder was quite simple; all you needed to do is navigate to your Home folder, and from there you could access the Library folder. But from OS X 10.8 onwards, Apple has hidden the Library folder, meaning it won’t show up in your Home folder anymore.
  5. Jul 23, 2012  chflags hidden /Library. To hide it again. Jan 17, 2012 10:37 PM Reply Helpful. Thread reply - more options. Link to this Post. Question: Q: How To Unhide the Library Folder in Mac OS X Lion More Less. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

This article is intended for system administrators. If you believe this issue affects you, contact the system administrator for your business or school.

Hide a user account in the macOS login window

1. Log in as an admin user.

2. Use this Terminal command. Substitute the short name of the user that you want to hide for 'hiddenuser':

The user account is also hidden in System Preferences the next time it's opened. This command can't be used with the Guest user account. Learn how to manage the Guest user account.

Show a hidden user account

If you want to show the hidden user, set the user’s IsHidden attribute to 0:

If you want, you can delete the IsHidden attribute instead.

Hide the home directory and share point

You can move the hidden user's home directory to a place that's not visible from the Finder. And you can remove the hidden user's Public Folder share point.

This command moves the home directory of 'hiddenuser' to /var, a hidden directory:

This command updates the user record of 'hiddenuser' with the new home directory path in /var:

This command removes the Public Folder share point for the user with the long name 'Hidden User”:

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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.

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/

Mac Os X Hidden Library Folder

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.

A pure AppleScript way to toggle user library folder visibility:

Thanks! I've been looking for this folder for weeks.

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.

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.