Make User Library Visible in Mountain Lion
I would like to make my User Library folder permanently visible since it has much useful information that I consult. Many sources have recommended you insert chflags nohidden ~/Library/ into a Terminal window to make this change. I was able to do this successfull in Lion.
However, in Mountain Lion, Terminal responds with Permission Denied when I do this. Does anyone know what I need to do to make the command work?
Thanks.
As markwmsn pointed out, this may be your case. If you are logged as root, then you are changing root's library flag and not your own. Unless root is the only user you are using on this Mac, I don't see a reason why you should log into the machine as root.
Would this work?
chflags nohidden /Users/username/Library/
where "username" would be the user you are trying to show the library for.
Otherwise, I'm out of ideas. :-(
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