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I thought there was a checkbox to suppress the hiding of my user Library folder on Mavericks, but I can't seem to find it. I appreciate hiding Library by default, but since Lion have missed it being easily accessible.

How can I get the library folder to be visible in Finder, the Finder go menus / file save dialogs without needing to hold down shift?

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Open your desired user Home folder in Finder (ShiftCommand + H) and select View > Show View Options. There should be a checkbox for toggling the Library folder.

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  • That absolutely shows me the Library in file save dialogs and Finder views. Now to see if we can leverage that to get the Finder Go menu as well :-) Thanks!
    – bmike ♦
    Commented Oct 24, 2013 at 19:07
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    Yes, that's odd that it still doesn't show up in the Go menu after enabling it in Finder. Is that a bug or a feature?
    – Bryan Luby
    Commented Oct 24, 2013 at 19:17
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Apple decided to hide the Library from its users in recent OS X updates, but in Mavericks you can now change that with a simple checkbox.

In the past you had to enter a Terminal command with every little system update:

chflags nohidden ~/Library

With OS X Mavericks, you can just navigate to your home folder, press cmd+J to bring up the folder settings, and check the box next to "Show Library Folder" instead.

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Even without Admin privileges, you can use the Finder's Go menu to access the library folder. Click on Go, then choose Go to folder... near the bottom of the dropdown menu.

In the resulting dialog box, type

~/Library

and hit Return.

EDIT: Alternatively click Go press ⌥ and click Library as it will show up on the key-press.

Your Library folder will open in the active Finder window, or in a new window if one isn't already open.

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  • The downside of this method being that there is no (one step) keyboard shortcut for doing that.
    – dwightk
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 15:30
  • @dwightk hit the ALT button and it will show up as item in the list.
    – Rob
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 15:50
  • @bmike changed via review page - I cannot see the full question there? Feel free to rollback.
    – Rob
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 16:00
  • @robuust that's cool, then it shows up which lets you bypass the Go to folder command, but oddly there's no keyboard shortcut next to it.
    – dwightk
    Commented Mar 20, 2014 at 17:59
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You have to make sure that you first drag over your Home Folder to the side bar if it's not already there. Then click on it and press Cmd+J.

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