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Beavix

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Dec 1, 2010
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I no longer have a Users/myname/Library within Lion, but it is present in my Snow Leopard volume.

How do I get it back?:confused:

In Finder click on the Go menu and then press the Alt key, you'll see Library appearing as an option in the drop down.
 

Pndrgnsvc

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Original poster
Jun 13, 2008
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In Finder click on the Go menu and then press the Alt key, you'll see Library appearing as an option in the drop down.


That worked just as you said, many thanks.

But is there a way to add it so that it is always visible when in List or Columns view?

And just curious, is that normal and why did Apple do such a thing?
 

paulsalter

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Aug 10, 2008
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copy and paste the following into a terminal window, then drag it to the left pane to have it in there

chflags nohidden ~/Library/
 

Watabou

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Feb 10, 2008
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That worked just as you said, many thanks.

But is there a way to add it so that it is always visible when in List or Columns view?

And just curious, is that normal and why did Apple do such a thing?

Just type this into Terminal:

Code:
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
and then press enter.

The library folder should automatically reappear.

And I suppose Apple did this to prevent users from deleting important files from it.
 
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