▶ How to view the ~/Library folder in Mavericks and Yosemite | Macworld

▶ How to view the ~/Library folder in Mavericks and Yosemite | Macworld

▲     How to view the ~/Library folder in Mavericks and Yosemite Inside your home folder is a Library folder —commonly written in Unix syntax as ~/Library, which means "a folder named Library at the root level of your home folder." This folder is accessible only to you, and it's used to store your personal settings, application-support files, and, in some cases, data. The files and folders in ~/Library are generally meant to be left alone, but if you've been using OS X for a while, chances are you've delved inside. Perhaps you wanted to tweak something using a tip from Macworld, Mac OS X Hints , or elsewhere on the Web. Or maybe a developer asked you to delete a preference file, or grab a log file, while troubleshooting a program. Whatever the case may have been, up until Lion (OS X 10.7), you simply opened your Home folder to access the Library folder. But after upgrading to Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and yes even OS X 10.10 Yosemite,

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