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Re-Enable The Library Folder In OS X Lion
Mar 11, 2025
How-To Re-Enable The Library Folder In OS X Lion
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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how you can reveal the library folder in
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your home directory so in previous
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versions of Mac OS 10 if you went into
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your home directory with your little
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house icon you'd see a library folder
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there's a lot of stuff in this folder I
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use it all the time and I'm sure a lot
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of other people do too specifically more
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advanced
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users and in Mac OS 10 lion the folder
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is still there but it's hidden and you
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can't access it normally and that's
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because Apple feels that it's not really
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necessary for most users which it really
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isn't but I like to have it there and I
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use it but there's a handy way that you
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can reenable this in line the first
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thing you can do is if you only use the
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folder occasionally it might be easier
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just to go up to the go menu
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and click on go to folder and here you
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can see I already have the path entered
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and that is the little squiggly thing
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which is the till day then slash Library
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slash and then if you hit go it'll go to
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that folder and you can access it but as
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soon as you close this window that'll be
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gone so what you'll probably want to do
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is go into terminal and I'll show you
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what to do so I'm going to go up to
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Spotlight and I already have terminal
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typed in so if I hit terminal and open
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up terminal here what I'm going to type
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in now is just one simple string of text
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and I'm going to do type in ch
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Flags space no
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hidden space and then the till day slash
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Library I'm going hit enter nothing
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visually is going to happen you're not
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going to see anything change but once
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you quit terminal go back into your
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finder and then click on your home
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directory again you're going to see that
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there is a library folder there and from
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there you might want to you know add it
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to your sidebar something like that uh
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whatever and uh you can see that it's
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all there and you can access it whenever
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you want and I find this very handy and
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I'm guessing a lot of you will too I
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think it was a little bit of a bad move
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on Apple's part to disable it uh but I
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can see their point in it now the other
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thing you can do is if you want to
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disable it again for some reason if you
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go back into terminal and you type in
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almost the exact same thing which is CH
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Flags
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and then
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hidden and then till SL
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library and hit enter and you go back
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into finder you're going to see that the
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library folder is hidden once again now
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you can do this with any folder so if I
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type in ch
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Flags
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hidden and then till day SL
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desktop you can see that when I go into
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my home directory
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the desktop folder is hidden now I
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wouldn't recommend that at all uh but
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you know it's an option and then once
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again to unhide it you just had to add
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the no in front of hidden and that's all
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there is to it and that's how you
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reenable the library folder in Mac OS 10
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line and the other thing I'm probably
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going to get questions about is my
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status bar down here um in line that's
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disabled by default you can't see how
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many gigaby you have on your drive but
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if you go up to the view menu and you
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click on hide status bar or show status
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bar in this case it's already there so
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I'm G to hit hide it'll go away and come
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back as you wish so I hope you found
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this video useful and as always if you
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have any houso that you'd like to see me
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do make sure to send me an email and I
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will do those as soon as I can so I hope
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you found this video useful and thank
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you for
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watching
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