[Macpartners] Home Directory Library is invisible

[Oliver Thomas]

Hi Carolyn,

It ships hidden by default in Lion. If you just need to get to it, holding down the Option key while clicking on the "Go" menu in the Finder will show you your Library folder as one of the places you can go to.

If you want to make it permanently visible, you can run:

	chflags nohidden ~/Library

from a Terminal window. ("chflags hidden ~/Library" will revert it back to hidden if you need it.) See Hermes at http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/BABOAg for more details.

Best,

Oliver

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On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Carolyn A Fuller wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have just discovered that my Library folder in my home directory is invisible. How do I fix that?
> 
> I'm running MacOS X 10.7.3.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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