Disappearing Folders

I've updated my Macbook and iMac (latest model) to OS X 10.7 Lion and have "lost" the Library folder in my User account on the iMac but not on the Macbook.
I used Tinker Tool to try to confirm that it exists - it does but I can't seem to make it "visible" - before the whole OS corrupted and needed to be reloaded, so I'm loathe to use that again.
How can I see the foder again as it contains some information that is not available in tne system Library folder - information relating to specific programmes in my user account which wish to access.
I don't understand why it is visible/accessible on one machine and not on the other.

The folder is hidden now, to open go to your finder and click the go menu item then click go to folder type in /Library it will show in the finder.

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On the disappeared folders, try this first...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
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If 10.7.0 or later...
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I have a lot of apps downloaded on my iphone excess of 200
Had them neatly organized in folders.
Was working fine for a while
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Tried shutting down and restarting the iphone4
Folders still gone
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Hello I combed many threads on this.
I finally resolved it.
if you have not performed a sync before, backup your iphone to save your folders.
If you lost your folders storing your apps
First restore the last backup of your iphone. (You may have to do it twice.
Ie restore backup, then when sync occurs after back up. stop the sync.
Then hit restore backup.
The above was on other threads.
Now for resolving the disappearing folders do the following:
Make sure you do not have
automatic sync
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itunes with your device/iphone
attached (this will back up your purchases to itunes).
Backup your iphone (take a mental
note or record time you backup)
Enable restrictions on iphone
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General/Restrictions/ Select on
applies to install and delete
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check sync apps
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states "warning this will remove
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on your iphone to retain your folders.
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display no longer grayed out on
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automatically sync new apps on the
left display of itunes.
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GO about further organizing your folders on the itunes/computer display,
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HOWEVER, a program he has routinely used with no problem since the early 90s suddenly started giving him problems (after I left, of course). It is Aldus Persuasion 2.1. When he would double-click on one of the files created by Persuasion, which he could open before reinstalling Tiger, he gets the following message:
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Getting info on the file says that it is a Unix executable file. Say what?
I have repaired permissions. I have run Disk Warrior. I have reinstalled OS 9.2.2. I have reinstalled Classic. Still no success.
I had an extra G4 Dome iMac (10.4.11 and 256MBs RAM) and a printer that I loaned him, so he can at least open and print his files. I put his copy of Persuasion on a flash drive and copied it to his wife's computer (G4 Tower, with 10.4.11 and 512MBs RAM). It runs and prints. I have a G4 tower (10.4.11 and 1 gig of RAM). It runs and I assume would print, although I did not try. The Dome iMac runs Persuasion and prints. I have a G3 tower on which it did not run. These are all copies of the one on his Mac Mini, so I do not believe that his copy is corrupted. He is glad that he can at least print some of his files, but does not want two computers in his office. I'm bidding on eBay on a copy of Persuasion 4 for him, in hopes that this will correct the situation.
We know that Persuasion is old, and the guy at Adobe who has worked there for 5 years has never even heard of it, so there is no tech support there.
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+When he would double-click on one of the files created by Persuasion, which he could open before reinstalling Tiger, he gets the following message:+
+"Open Dictionary. Unable to read the dictionary of the application or extension because it is not scriptable."+
+Then it quits and the Tiger version of Script Editor starts up with nothing in the box.+
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Starting with the last issue (Unix executable) that really just means that the OS doesn't know what program created the file.
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I am having several issues with Yosemite, mainly disappearing folders (title / name) but no folder or more importantly no previews of .mov or other video files nor unable to open them. I have years of these files that I want to edit in FCP X.
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I am a new leopard user and found a weird problem on my Powermac g5...
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I just had a situation where I was working on the desktop of my MacPro and then some folders with drivers that I had downloaded seem to have disappeared.
This was around the time I was trying to install one of these and it wanted to install on the EXTERNAL DRIVE that contains my CLONE of this drive.
I am now finding the disappeared folders on the EXTERNAL DRIVE and have moved these to my desktop.
However, the MacPro was making a slightly mechanical noise yesterday and was running a bit slow with icons slow to show up on the desktop etc.
I'm a new mac user and this has me a bit terrified quite frankly.
I've disconnected the external clone and have the Time Machine backup still hooked up.
Any advice for the newbie?
Thanks.

Hi Cathy,
I was working on the Desktop - like looking at the folders on my desktop - and moving them around and organizing data that was within them so they were better organized. This goes here, that goes there, this folder gets deleted because there is no more data in it etc.
And at some point I returned to the Desktop to print something within one of the folders and they WERE NOT THERE. So I had this "huh?" moment.
And then I started thinking about this issue with Aliases (which I don't understand totally) where if I create some kind of Alias for my MacBookPro on my MacPro and put this in some kind of place such as (I guess) the Finder Sidebar - Mac will "helpfully" "resolve" it to point to something on my MAC PRO. I create an Alias for MBP Documents folder and then I put it somewhere on the Mac Pro and it all of a sudden points to Documents on the Mac Pro instead of Documents on the MacBookPro which is what it was pointed to initially.
Anyway, this is so problematic I now have a "screenshots" folder on my MacPro and a "screenshots_MBP" on my MacBookPro so there is no way they can get mixed up like this. ALSO, it helps for me to see where I am on the network if you follow me.
This thing about Short Names and Long Names I have to be honest I totally don't yet understand but I hope to soon.
ANWYAY, the point is that I just ran a CLONED backup to an External Drive recently so that I have a full clone of my system in addition to my other backups and I started to think about why these folders had been there and then suddenly disappeared.
So I went looking in the Desktop folder on the EXTERNAL CLONE and sure enough they were there. On the clone but not on the MacPro. So I posted this thread.
I mean, I am sure there are other explanations for what happened both in terms of what I was actually doing or in terms of what happened but this is my recollection. Not possible?
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