Like many others, we started playing around with Lion today at Elon. And by we, I really mean Mike. We’re not releasing it into the wild yet, making sure that from both a user and administration standpoint it is compatible with the various systems and software we use on campus. We’ve already noticed some issues with binding to Active Directory and user profiles for network/mobile users, though to be fair we’ve not spent much time with it.
While poking around we happened to notice that the User Library was missing. It didn’t take us but a moment to realize that it was simply hidden. Power users and administrators access this directory frequently and the most common solution (changing the defaults to display all hidden files and directories) isn’t ideal since it will reveal all hidden items. So I thought I’d share a little UNIX trick I picked up in ACSA deployment training for unhiding a single directory.
Simply launch Terminal and use the following command to unhide the User Library:
chflags nohidden ~/Library/
Open Finder and visit your User directory to ensure the Library is now revealed.
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