How do I see my /user/library?

Open the Terminal application in your Utilities and enter or paste the following at the prompt:

sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library

Press RETURN. Enter your admin password when prompted. It will not be echoed.

Check out this thread where is user library in Lion: Apple Support Communities

Apple Tips Some Changes in Lion

Hello:

Go to the menu bar. Select home folder and hold the option key down....

Barry

There's a problem navigating to the user library folder when option/Go isn't available. For example, in order to clean up a threat manually in Sophos antivirus, you have to create a custom scan and navigate to the threat in the window that automatically comes up. But that window does not have the user library in it--and inevitably, that is where I have to start, So I cannot go through the steps to scan the offending worm. What to do?

Hello Hazel:

As a future suggestion, post a question as a new thread - rather than "piggybacking" on an existing thread. In that way, more people will read your question and possibly provide suggestions. The only reason I read a thread that has already been answered is because I am E-mial subscribed.

As a suggestion, uninstall the Sophos A/V software. I am not trying to be flippant. There are NO viruses that affect a Mac running OS X - NONE. At a minimum, A/V software wastes system resource. On the really down side, A/V software causes some users real problems. A/V software on a Mac is searching for things that do not exist.

Barry

No, but there are worms and Trojans, and there was that MacDefender scare a few months ago. My user group basically thinks it's better to be safe than sorry, especially when the program is free. What appears to be the issue is that Sophos isn't playing well with Lion yet, so I uninstalled it, and then all was well.

With regard to replying rather than starting a new thread, I thought that is what you are supposed to do when the issue has already been dealt with, i.e., finding the library. But it's much easier to start a new thread, so I will do that from now on.

Thanks.