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Resolved How to unhide user library?

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rerelease

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As it seems Lion has made the user library a hidden folder and I routinely need to access it, is there some way I could bring it out from obscurity again (without showing all hidden files)?

Thank you in advance.
 
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mrapplegate

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Feb 26, 2011
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rerelease said:
As it seems Lion has made the user library a hidden folder and I routinely need to access it, is there some way I could bring it out from obscurity again (without showing all hidden files)?

Thank you in advance.
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Hold down option key then click Go menu in Finder or enter ~/Library in "Go to Folder" from the Go menu in the finder.

or in terminal chflags nohidden /users/**username**/library
 
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ghsDUDE

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meptik

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mrapplegate said:
or in terminal chflags nohidden /users/**username**/library
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This. Easiest solution in the long term, I think.

I personally used this version of the command:
chflags nohidden ~/Library

Saves typing, and you don't need to bother about where exactly your user folder is (mine's on a different drive).
 
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