![]() ![]() This is the same reason Apple has always hidden the folders containing OS X’s Unix underpinnings: /bin, /sbin, /usr, and the like. The reason for this move is presumably that people unfamiliar with the inner workings of Mac OS X often open ~/Library and start rooting around, moving and deleting files, only to find later that programs don’t work right, application settings are gone, or-worse-data is missing. ![]() ![]() But in Lion, Apple has made the folder invisible. What’s that? It’s gone? It seems so, doesn’t it? But rest assured, your personal Library folder is right where it’s always been, at the root level of your Home folder. Whatever the case may have been, you simply opened your Home folder to access the Library folder.īut if you’ve just upgraded to Lion, try accessing your personal Library folder that way now. Or maybe a developer asked you to delete a preference file, or grab a log file, while troubleshooting a program. Perhaps you wanted to tweak something using a tip from Macworld, Mac OS X Hints, or elsewhere on the Web. ![]() The files and folders in ~/Library are generally meant to be left alone, but if you’ve been using Mac OS X for a while, chances are you’ve delved inside. Inside your Home folder is a Library folder ( ~/Library), accessible only to you, that’s used to store your personal application-support files and, in some cases, data. ![]()
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