Where did the "library" folder at the users level go?

Ziatron wrote:
Following the lead from Windows, it's now hidden.
Users are not qualified to use the library anyway.
When it's following the Windblows lead, there should also be an option to revert this, to be able to switch the hidden files back to visible. Haven't been able to find that option yet.
Furthermore, I despise your remark about users not being qualified. When I buy something I have all rights using any and all part of it. Whether that's a sensible choice for each and every user is a whole other question, but to treat all users as one dumb-*** group is not good (IMHO).
Cheers,
Gerard

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you can test by showing all hidden files, run the following commands in terminal to show hidden files:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
the following commands will hide them again:
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killall Finder
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~/Library' command in the post from "11-May-2007
12:21 PM", it can be seen that there are no longer
any ACLs listed for that folder, yet the "+" sign
persists -ie. there doesn't seem to be a way to make
the command relevant to this situation since there is
no index to refer to, so I didn't want to belabour
the point of the syntax error.
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