Old Toad
In regards to Stuart Bernstein's concern over the hidden user library in Lion. There was a hint posted in the Mac OS X Hints forum, 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder, with a Terminal command to make the library visible:
chflags nohidden ~/Library.
The only caveat is that if one repairs disk permissions with Disk Utilit, the Terminal command will have to be reapplied.
Once I made the library visible, I dragged it into the sidebar of my Finder window so that I could access it even if I repaired disk permissions and didn't reapply the command right away.
David Fink
Stuart Bernstein needs access to the Library folder, which is hidden in Lion. This has been addressed here in Macintouch.
John Crane [see here] made the ~/Library folder visible with the Terminal command
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
He said that updating from OS X 10.7 to 10.7.1 rehid the library, but reissuing the command unhid the Library again.
The next day, Andrew Abernathy offered two other solutions [see here]:
Hold down the Option key to have a "Library" option appear in the Finder's Go menu, and once you have opened the folder, drag it to the Favorites area in the Finder sidebar so you can easily open it again, and that sidebar location should be immune from future software updates.
Then Stephen Hart suggested [here] dragging the folder to the Finder button bar at the top of the window.
The next day, John Crane reported that his un-hidden Library folder was hidden again upon restarting his computer. Over the next three days, there were conflicting reports from other readers as to whether or not their Library reverted to hidden upon restart.
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