Finder not showing user library folder

Here's what I did...after searching for many hours.

I had a plexmedia player icon that would not disappear in my Finder/Applications. I could not trash it as it said it was running.

I went to Applications and organized by cateogry. I looked for Utilties, which I found in "OTHER" category.

I clicked on the Activity Monitor

I saw the hidden Plex junk, and then quit them.

I was then able to go back to the Finder/Application folder and finally trash the Plex Media for good!

ThisisDave-

Thank you! This has been driving me crazy. The term "Library" is used in many Apple Support tutorials and by more experienced Apple users when I've followed or posted discussions. I'm on OSX 10.8.5, and have never been able to locate it until I found your post.

None of this worked for me, but the easiest way is to pick a random folder *any one* then 'ctrl and click' and press 'show view options' then all you have to do is press 'Show Library Folder' and there you have it!

In Mavericks (OS 10.9.1), there are two types of libraries in the Mavericks file directory, one Library for the overall hard-drive (HD) and a Library folder for each user account. Both types can be made visible in the Finder.

For the HD library, click on the HD icon in the Sidebar (use Finder/Preferences/Sidebar to make it visible) and the Library folder, which has a distinctive "library facade" on it, will be listed along with other folders in the HD. The Applications folder is included.

(The Users folders for each user-account are in the same list.)

To find the library in your user account folder (which again you make visible in the Sidebar using Finder/Preferences/Sidebar), simply click on the user-account icon in the Sidebar and your user Library folder will appear in a second list. The Applications folder is included. Naturally, it doesn't contain other users' user-account folders and data. Otherwise, the HD and user-account Library folders' contents are much the same.

For ease of use, if you are the only user of your Mac, drag the user-account Library folder into the sidebar beneath the user-account icon (presuming you've already made your user account icon visible in the Sidebar). Then all you have to do is click on it to access the subolders and files it contains.

(You can drag the HD Library folder into the sidebar, also -- but to avoid confusion, since most of the folders and files you regularly use are in the user-account Library folder, I leave my HD folder where it is.)

This should be the accepted answer, because it permanently makes the folder visible. The accepted answer only helps in the case when you are searching from Finder, but that is not always the case and you don't have the Go menu available.

The folder is probably visible in Terminal (command line) but not in Finder. The administration of Finder is not correct.

You can solve this:

- Create a new subfolder (eg zzz) in Terminal or a third party browser/FTP program.

- Go to the folder in Finder

- Press "Go" and start typing the name of the new subfolder (eg zz), do not press Enter yet

- After some seconds you'll note that Finder has update its administration, also the previous hidden folder is now displayed.

@J.Richardson this makes no sense by the way, way to go the intuitive route. And be super cool about it

Thanks, your scrip really does the trick.

In Mavericks (OS 10.9.1), there are two types of libraries in the Mavericks file directory,

There are actually 3 Library folders.

/Library

/Systems/Library

/Users/User_name/Library (hidden by default)

At least Mac is not Windows 8.

If you want to talk about train wrecks.

You're my hero. I wiped my MacBook (early 2011) and got El Capitan and saw my user home under favorites was gone... I was having *** moments! Thank you for the help!😊

Thanks, Thomas. Even though typing chflags nohidden ~/Library did not work, typing ~/Library did the trick. 🙂

Thanks, Thomas. Even though typing chflags nohidden ~/Library did not work, typing ~/Library did the trick. 🙂