Thursday, May 17, 2012

Permanently Unhide Library

Permanently Unhide Library: When Apple shipped Mac OS X Lion 10.7, the “Library” folder located within every user’s home folder, which had previously been visible to users in the Finder, was made invisible. This hint shows how to make the folder visible and keep it that way forever.


As you may know, and as mentioned in this hint, the Library folder can be made visible again by running the following command in Terminal:


/usr/bin/chflags nohidden ~/Library



Apple keeps making the folder invisible again with every System update, so it gets tedious re-running the above script. You can automate this by adding a Login Item with an AppleScript "script application" containing the following code:


do shell script "/usr/bin/chflags nohidden ~/Library"



Read detailed instructions for this hint, and download a ready-made script application file on the ...




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