Library folder randomly appeared in Documents

This morning a folder named "Library" appeared in my Documents list, and whenever I try to open it, there's a message that says I don't have permission to see its contents (there's a red-and-white caution circle over it). I haven't made any changes to my Mac recently, and the only software that I've downloaded in the past couple of days were some Adobe Creative Cloud updates. I didn't see anything weird in EtreCheck or Activity Monitor, so I don't think anything nefarious is going on, but I still would like to get to the bottom of this since I've never seen it happen before.

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Mar 4, 2021 10:23 AM

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Mar 19, 2021 2:33 PM in response to reDesign

iCloud Drive is a big problem for many, did you enable it on purpose?


Do you have a Library folder in your User's folder?


~ tilde indicates hidden Local Library

Apple hid the Users' Library folders...


Method 1:

  1. From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.
  2. In the window that opens, enter ~/Library, and click Go


And another at root of the drive?

Mar 19, 2021 2:09 PM in response to BDAqua

So weird, this also happened to me, and it happed on March 4 as well! Mine showed up after something I was working on crashed, and I restart the computer. Mine new inaccessible Library folder is inside the documents folder on my iCloud drive though. I followed some steps here on this page, and change it to "read and write" but it still didn't give me access. It does say it has zero bytes inside the folder though. It's just so odd.

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