Cult of Mac

Get Temporary Access To Your Mac OS X Library Folder When You Need It [OS X Tips]

The Library folder changed from being visible in Mac OS X Snow Leopard to being invisible in Mac OS X Lion. Apple decided to hide the Library folder from users to protect them from damaging the ...
Macworld

18 ways to view the ~/Library folder in Lion and Mountain Lion

[Editor’s note: The list is now up to 19, thanks to a great reader tip.] But if you’ve just upgraded to Lion, try accessing your personal Library folder that way now. Go ahead…I’ll wait. While I ...
Cult of Mac

Mavericks Makes It Way Easier To Access Your Library Folder [OS X Tips]

Back in OS X Lion and then again in OS X Mountain Lion, Apple hid access to the user Library folder to prevent neophyte OS X users from messing around in the areas of the file system that could cause ...
Tidbits

How to Keep the User Library Folder Visible in macOS

When drafting “Switching from a 27-inch iMac to a 14-inch MacBook Pro: A Fresh Start” (30 June 2025), I wrote: The two configuration tweaks that required a bit more effort were displaying the Library ...