User Library In Mac Sierra

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While many Mac users may never need to access their User Library folder while running macOS Sierra — some advanced users, may need to get in there and access support data and such when troubleshooting. The folder is hidden by default in macOS Sierra, but it only take a few moments to access it, or make it so that the folder is always visible.

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I have previously posted an article about showing your User Library. However, Apple has made it very easy to show your User Library in macOS Sierra. This article describes exactly how to do that. Remember, you need to be careful in your User Library. There are important settings in there.Doug. Dec 19, 2016  How to Get User Library Folder in your macOS Sierra Favorites List. December 19, 2016. Perhaps, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard could be the last Mac OS that allowed easy access to user library folder. Thereafter, we saw a number of Mac operating systems wherein accessing user library was a hard task forever the power users. Jan 12, 2020 The user's Library has long been a go-to location for troubleshooting issues with individual applications or components shared by multiple applications. If you haven't heard the refrain 'Delete the application's plist,' you either haven't been using a Mac for very long, or you've been lucky enough not to experience an application behaving badly.

Error library in use when emptying trash on mac taking long time. 03) Restart And Try AgainSometimes the file(s) you are trying to delete may be in use by an application or system background process. An easy way to fix this is to restart your computer and try to empty the trash again. The apps, and are both great.NERD NOTE: Be sure to download a version that is compatible with the version of Mac OS X you are using.

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Before we begin, we want to say that it’s usually a good idea to leave things in the users ~/Library folder alone, unless directed to by support personnel. The folder contains caches, application support data, and preference files, and if you screw around in there too much, you could really screw things up. We DO NOT recommend it. Now that our butts are covered, here’s how to find and display your User Library folder.

Opening the User Library Folder in macOS Sierra

If you just need to access the user ~/Library folder on occasion, you can get into it by using the Finder “Go” menu.

To make your songs appear in the iTunes window again:.Locate your iTunes folder in the Finder, then drag it to the iTunes window. How to add folder to itunes library on mac computer. You might want to do this, for example, if you prefer to store video files on an external disk but still want to view them in iTunes.In the iTunes app on your Mac, choose iTunes  Preferences, then click Advanced.Deselect the checkbox next to “Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library.”From now on, when you drag a file to your library or choose File  Add to Library, the item appears in iTunes, but the actual file isn’t copied or moved. When you to your iTunes library, iTunes places a copy of the file in your iTunes folder. If a song used to appear in iTunes but doesn’t now, it may be because the was moved from the iTunes folder, or the song was moved from the iTunes folder. The original file remains in its current location.You can change this setting so that files are added to your iTunes library without being added to the iTunes folder.

  1. From the Finder in macOS, (Click anywhere on the Desktop where there isn’t already an app window, and you should see “Finder” appear in the upper left hand corner of your display, up near the Apple icon), click the “Go” menu item, and then hold down the SHIFT key on your Mac’s keyboard.
  2. Click on “Library” in the drop-down list. (If you release the SHIFT key, the “Library” option will disappear from the menu. Now you see it, now you don’t.)

If you’re not much of a mouser, you can just hit the key combo of Command + Shift + L, and a Finder window will appear showing the ~/Library directory of the active user account.

Always Show the User Library Folder in macOS Sierra

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If you are an advanced user, you might want to always display the user ~/Library folder in your user Home directory. It just takes a few clicks to enable this option.

  1. In Finder, go to the Users’ home folder
  2. Click the “View” menu and then click “View Options”
  3. Click the “Show Library Folder” option in the Settings options for the User home folder, as shown below.

Following the above steps will change the settings for only the current user. Any other users will also have to follow the above steps while logged into the machine.

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These steps also work with Mac OS X El Capitan and Yosemite. In earlier versions of OS X, a command line entry was required to perform the same magic.

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