With the One Switch app, you can easily decide via the menu bar whether hidden files should be visible or hidden. This also makes the library folder visible. One last possibility for the hidden files should be mentioned here, since I will be writing a contribution to the app shortly anyway: The menu bar app "One Switch" (included in the Setapp subscription) has other practical functions as well as a switch to make hidden files visible. The hidden files and folders on the Mac can also be displayed with the free TinkerTool. This also works XNUMX% with macOS Catalina. If you want it even easier, download the recommended software TinkerTool and check the “Show hidden and system files” box in the “Finder” and “Finder Options” section. It should work like this until macOS Mojave. Unfortunately, I don't know what this looks like with macOS Catalina because I haven't installed the system yet. If you press the key combination again, they become invisible again. (Command and Shift and period) which will reveal the hidden files. Now press the key combination CMD + SHIFT +. To show hidden files, proceed as follows: Open a Finder window and click on the startup volume, which in most cases should be the "Macintosh HD" in the sidebar. If you show hidden files and folders on the Mac, the library folder in the user's private directory is also visible - but grayed out, but this does not have any restrictions. It is then grayed out, but you can still open it and make changes in it. If you show the hidden files, the Library folder is also visible.
However, these hidden files are easy to show and hide if you know the right way. Under macOS there are some files and folders that the system hides for security reasons or for a better overview. The library folder can also be made permanently visible via the display options of the user folder.įrom now on you can easily get to the library folder via the user's home folder. If you tick this box, the "Library" folder also appears on the right in the content view of the user folder. This opens the display options for this folder and you will find, among other things, the option "Show Library folder". If this folder is clicked, you select the key combination CMD + J ( Command key and J). If you have to go to the library folder more often, you will be happy about the following trick, which makes the folder visible as normal:įirst, you open a new Finder window and click on your own user in the sidebar (the folder with the house in front of it).
The way via the "Go to" menu with the ALT key pressed is probably the best known when you want to get to the Library folder.
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