I just cant do it. I’ve used spotlight and all that but i just can’t find it. Where should i be looking?
On OSX the tilde refers to the ‘home’ directory. The Library folder is hidden by default in this directory.
To unhide the library folder…
I am not sure how common this knowledge is among OSX/Mac/Linux users (probably quite for the latter group!) but coming from a PC background this wasn’t obvious - a little more detail in the docs would solve the confusion, especially as there is a /Library/Preferences folder.
Did you read the fine manual? It tells you exactly where they are stored.
To unhide the library folder on Mac OS, see the answer below.
This is how you do it
- open finder
- on the top bar open go
- wile go is open hold down alt/options
- library should show up in the menu, it is natural hidden
alternetly
- open the terminal
- write this line of code “chflags nohidden ~/Library”, if there is no"" after your user use this line of code " chflags nohidden ~/Library"
- this will make the libarys folder unbidden not needing to use the alt/options key to show it
- to revert back repeat step 2 but instead of “no hidden” use “hidden”
this is how you do it
- open finder
- on the tip bar open go
- when the drop down appears press the alt/options key and librarys should appear
alternetly
- open the terminal
- write this line of code “ chflags nohidden ~/Library", on some versions you don't need the "” so if it doesn’t work just remove it ant try again
this will unhid the librarys folder, it is natural hidden - to revert back to it being hidden use repeat step 2 with this line of code “$ chflags hidden ~/Library”