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Access Your Hidden Library Folder With These Five Easy Tricks Tuesday, March 21st, 2017 Author: Tom Nelson. The Mac OS is chock full of hidden areas where data, information, or features have been secreted away from Mac users. Dec 30, 2016 While most Mac users will never have to dig into their machine's usually hidden User Library folder, some may have to. Here's how to find it. While most Mac users will never have to dig into their machine's usually hidden User Library folder, some may have to. Here's how to find it.
Sep 27, 2016 A lot of Mac tutorials mention the Library folder, which is where your macOS applications store things like settings and caches. Some settings can only be changed by editing files in the Library. But the Library is hidden by default. Dec 20, 2018 Your user library instantly populates in your user folder; Unhide Folders to See User Library and a Heck of A Lot More! Another command we can leverage is the Unhide Keystroke of Command+Shift+Period. This action makes any hidden files or folders visible in your Finder, including the user library and all other hidden files.
Hide a user account in the macOS login window
1. Log in as an admin user.
2. Use this Terminal command. Substitute the short name of the user that you want to hide for 'hiddenuser':
The user account is also hidden in System Preferences the next time it's opened. This command can't be used with the Guest user account. Learn how to manage the Guest user account.
Show a hidden user account
If you want to show the hidden user, set the user’s IsHidden attribute to 0:
If you want, you can delete the IsHidden attribute instead.
Hide the home directory and share point
You can move the hidden user's home directory to a place that's not visible from the Finder. And you can remove the hidden user's Public Folder share point.
This command moves the home directory of 'hiddenuser' to /var, a hidden directory:
This command updates the user record of 'hiddenuser' with the new home directory path in /var:
This command removes the Public Folder share point for the user with the long name 'Hidden User”:
You may need to access content in the user Library folder to troubleshoot problems with your Adobe applications. The user Library folder is hidden by default in macOS X 10.7 and later releases. Use one of the following methods to make the user Library content visible.
Hold down the Alt (Option) key when using the Go menu. The user Library folder is listed below the current user's home directory.
Note: After you open the Library folder, you can drag the Library icon from the top of that window to the Dock, sidebar, or toolbar to make it readily accessible.
For more information, explanations, and ideas, see 18 ways to view the ~/Library folder in Lion and Mountain Lion.
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