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Why can't i find Library on Mac Os X Lion?

Why can't i find Library on mac os x lion?


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NelsonSupport

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Aug 24, 2011 11:53 PM

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Posted on Aug 24, 2011 11:56 PM

It's hidden. To reveal it open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and paste the following at the prompt:


chflags nohidden ~/Library


Press RETURN.

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May 26, 2015 11:39 AM in response to Kappy

I also have this problem... but doing


chflags nohidden ~/Library


at command prompt didn't help (even after restarting my machine...)


in fact, my /Library dir isn't hidden, that's not problem I'm having, I can navigate to it fine... problem I'm having is when I search, the search skips this /Library dir completely... it doesn't find any existing files or dirs in this /Library dir..


now for this dir to be "hidden" (whatever this means), when in fact my PHP environment (where I develop PHP sites) is there, makes no sense to me.. how can a development environment be in a hidden dir?????



my PHP env is in


Macintosh HD/Library/WebServer/Documents/

(the mac put it there, I didn't change anything, that's how it came "out of the box")

Why can't i find Library on Mac Os X Lion?

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