Missing library folder in Home folder

I no longer can find the Library folder in my home folder. Does anyone know where it is?

yes it was hidden in Lion for your protection To see, select Go in finder and press the alt/option key and u will see. if you want to change permanently, there is a terminal command to do that, look to the right of this page under "More like this"

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That indicates that that is your library. Put it in your Pictures folder if it already isn't there and make sure it's named "iPhoto Library". It should look like this:
Now launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and select that library to open. If you get that same message close iPhoto and try the following;
Apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
Launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys held down and rebuild the library.
Select the options identified in the screenshot.
Fix #2
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.

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After updating to system 7.2 the library folder in my home folder has disappeared.. anyone know if this is a byproduct of OS7.2

After updating to system 7.2 on my MacAir, the library folder in my home folder has disappeared.. anyone know if this is a byproduct of OS7.2

Not with 10.7.2 but with OSX Lion since it was released.
Apple has hidden the Library folder by default.
In Finder option-click Go in the menubar and it will appear under Home.
Or permanently with this Terminal command: chflags nohidden ~/Library
Stefan

Albums folder in iPhoto Library folder missing

The Albums folder in iPhoto Library folder missing. This means when I try to sync photos to my iPod (video) in iTunes, none of my photo albums show up (though I can seclect a specific folder useing year, month day, etc.). It also mens that I must navagate through the date folders to find photos when trying to attach them to e-mails.
I am running a G5 with the latest version of OSX, iPhoto, iTunes.
How do I recreat this folder?
Thankd for any help.
Cheers__ Heath

Hi Heath,
iPhoto 5 now stores the Album information in a data xml file. The Albums folder within the iPhoto Library folder is no longer used. At some point, usually after a rebuild, you will no longer have that folder in the Finder.
If you need to access photos from an album it is very difficult for a third party application to navigate the iPhoto Library in order to find the photo you need. You will have to know the date of import in order to find the photo.
There are some third party applications that can read the xml file and can navigate the iPhoto library and show you the Albums. Hopefully more applications will be revised to read this file.
Until then you will have to Share/Export the photos to the desktop. You can then navigate to the desktop to use the photos (example: web uploading from online photo site)
If your application supports drag and drop, you can drag the photo from an open iPhoto Library window into your application.
For email you can also use the email icon within iPhoto to open a message with the highlighted photo attached.
You can also use spotlight to find images in an Album...
This is what I have done using Spotlight to find my images that are in iPhoto albums without opening iPhoto..
In iPhoto, select the album, then select all, go to Photos/batch change.
Change the comments to text. In the text field I put the name of the Album.
Do this for each album.
Close iPhoto.
Open Spotlight and put in the name of the Album ( you have to remember the names of the albums or have then written down)
In the spotlight search results. click on "show all"
Under "Images" click on the "xx more" to show all the images in the album.
Make sure you have it in icon view, the icon view box is the last one on the blue images line.
Now you can control click on the image to "reveal in finder", open in iPhoto or Mail, etc.
I am not sure if this is going to make you happy and it is a little more work, but you can find images in albums and even view them in a slideshow (by clicking the play arrow at the end of the Images highlighted blue line) using Spotlight, all without opening iPhoto.
One important thing to know is you can set up a graphic program to be an external editor (when you double click an image in the library} such as PhotoShop or PS Elements. You set up that within iPhoto Preferences. Just make sure you save the image flattened and with the same name. The edits will then be relected in iPhoto when you hit "save".
Two Apple kbs for you to read
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder
About the iPhoto Library folder
Also, when you choose a folder to sync for your iPod, choose iPhoto in the drop down menu in iTunes, then choose the Album you want to sync. Do not choose a folder on your hard drive and then the Albums folder in the iPhoto Library folder.
Lori

Library Lost In Home Folder !

Hi All,
Just saw that my "Library" folder is gone from my Home folder.
I still have the "Library" folder in my System folder.
How can I restore it to my Home folder.
I do have "Time Machine and Super Duper backups.
MacMini i7 &, Running Mountain Lion V10.8.3
Thanks for your input,
JRC

In Lion and Mountain Lion, the Library folder from your user folder is hidden by default. To show it, open a Finder window, select the Go menu (on the menu bar), hold the Option (Alt) key and choose "Library".
If you want to show it always in Finder, open Terminal and type: chflags nohidden ~/Library

Home Library folder was moved, all settings are now gone

Hello all-
I'm having a serious dilemma, and could really use some help. My MacBook Pro has been having some issues lately: running slowly, constantly kicking me out of Safari for no reason & all together just acting "wrong". About a month ago after reading several posts on this and other forums I decided to download OnyX to keep my system in good order. Upon first running OnyX it told me that my start-up volume needed to be repaired before it would proceed. Scared to do this for fear of screwing something up worse, I stupidly ignored it and went about my life. Then last week my favourite freeware app, xPad, all of a sudden stopped working. This reminded me about the volume issue and I checked the volume with Disk Utility and yes, there were problems. I was told to fix it by using the install discs. I had planned on doing it later that night (though I wasn't sure how) but I thought it would be beneficial to have a copy of my "Home (Shortname) folder" before doing so, in case I screwed something else up. This is where my real problems began.
I made a burn folder of my "Home folder" but realized that the "Library" folder was somehow not in the burn folder. I can't be certain what happened from here. I know I freaked out. I put the burn folder in the trash and restarted my computer. Probably a stupid thing to do, but I admittedly have never known what to do with a burn folder if you don't want it any longer. Well, upon restart it was obvious that I had mucked something up because I was shown the blue apple screen instead of my regular desktop picture, my Dock had several question marks and everything was back to the original settings instead of my brushed metal settings. Though most of my icons were still there and the applications and documents folders seemed unharmed. I began Safari and it too was all amuck. I then took the burn folder out of the trash along with anything I found in "Recovered Files" folders, of which there where several and put them on my desktop. It seems that my Home Library Folder was indeed in the trash along with my Documents, Macintosh HD, Public and several others, plus the Burn Folder with all of the aliases to those folders minus the Library folder (if that makes any sense) & they are now all on my desktop. So now after that long rambling preface, for which I apologize, my questions are as follows:
1) If I move the Library Folder on my Desktop back to the Home(Shortname) folder will everything be all right again? i.e., applications will run correctly and find their data and life will go on as planned? Or is there something else I need to do instead?
2) After fixing this dilemma what do I do with all of the folders that are now on my desktop? Particularly my Macintosh HD, Documents, Public and Burn Folder? It seems that trashing them was where the real problems began.
3) Is it then safe to automatically try to do the reinstall via Disk Utility?
I suppose we should just start with getting this Library matter settled first. Any suggestions are welcomed and greatly appreciated. It seems I know just enough about my Mac to mess it up. So I will gladly take all the advice anyone can give. I thank you all in advance for your help.
-Angela

Thanks for the quick responses you guys, sorry it took me a while to get back. I did as you suggested bdkjones and all seems to be well. Unfortunately, xPad is still not working and I had hoped that the Startup Disk Repair would solve whatever issue that was, but alas it did not. I'll write the creator of that specific program to see if he has any suggestions, unless anyone else does in the meantime. But as for my prior predicament, though I haven't checked everything folder by folder yet, things seems fine so far. I truly appreciate the help. I pretty much knew what to do but just needed the encouragement of someone saying "Do this. You're on the right path. You won't ruin everything." And don't worry I'll be taking care of any future repairs as soon as I know about them from now on. It was really quite a scare for a while there.
Once again thanks and if you or anyone have any other morsels of info you feel like throwing my way about system maintenance or anything in the Mac realm you feel I should know please feel free. The last few days have made me realize I'm at that dangerous level in computer knowledge where I seem to know just enough to muck something up but not quite how to fix it.
-Angela

Calendar data not in "Home" library folder

Tried looking for home/library/calendar. In order to back up my lost calenda revents with time machine, I would like to know where those events are stored so I don't have to back up my whole computer. As mentioned in the discussion table there is no calendar in the library folder.

If you synchronize any of your calendars with a server, disable that synchronization. Quit Calendar.
Triple-click the line below to select it: ~/Library/Calendars Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder selected. Enter Time Machine and restore that folder from the snapshot you want.
Relaunch Calendar and test. Your calendars should be as they were when the snapshot was taken. If you don't sync with a server, stop here. If you do sync some of the calendars with a server, select each one in turn and then select
File ▹ Export ▹ Export…
from the menu bar. You'll get ICS files with the filename extension ".ics". Re-enable sync. Usually, all the calendars you just restored will be deleted. That's not a problem. Create a new calendar on the server for each one you exported and want to sync:
File ▹ New Calendar
Then import the calendar from the corresponding ICS file by double-clicking it. Follow the prompts to import the new events to the calendar you just created. For calendars that you don't want to sync, just import them again. They'll appear in the calendar list under On My Mac.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

My Library folder is missing-where did it go?

My mail app has stopped working. It was suggested in another thread that I go to the mail folder in the Library folder and delete
some items from the V2 file or folder. Problem is, I have no Library folder. Not there. Missing. Utterly confused. Searched all over the computer,
and stil MIA. How does this happen. My HD was replaced earlier this week by Apple. Old one crashed and burned. Everything worked fine until last night.
The mail won't open. Eberything else on computer works fine (so far). When I made a new folder and named it Library, box said name already in use. So this tells me it's hiding. How do I get it back. Any suggestions?

OS X Lion: Where did my Library go?
Drag it to the sidebar for easy access.

Why doesn't my library folder show up in my home folder?

I suddenly realized that my library folder does not show up in my home folder. I can find items in the folder if I search for them, and if I navigate upwards I can see the Library folder. But if I do anything else, the folder disappears from my home folder. As an experiment, I duplicated the folder to my deskptop. It appears to have duplicated (I can search for items and the finder located them) but the folder is invisible on the desktop. If, however, I navigate to the Library from within an FontBook it is visible, otherwise not. Any ideas?

That is a result of Lion...
For Lion: To find the Home folder in OS X Lion, open the Finder, hold the Option key, and choose Go > Library
Not a good idea to move system folders !!!!

Manual Migration to Mountain Lion: but can't see the home library folder.

Hi,
This is my first post in the Apple support community.
I'm moving from iMac running Snow Leopard to my MacBook Pro retina running Mountain Lion.
I only want to move what I really need, and leave all the old software and old files behind.
I put the MacBook Pro in target disc mode and started moving things through a FireWire 800 cable, connected to a Thunderbolt port through an Apple adapter.
Until I came to the items in the home library folder to move - and, of course - I couldn't see the home library folder on my retina MacBook Pro.
The key question is: can I make it visible for the time of the move?
Should I put the old iMac in target disc mode and handle the move from the retina Macbook Pro side and unhide the library folder using the Command + Shift + G keystroke?
Or are the days of manual migration over due to the hidden home library folder?
Applecare support noted I should use the migration assistant, and that I could chose the files I wanted to move.
Can you really do it in such a detail as during a manual migration?
Thanks!

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and provide ~/Library/ as the path.
(73480)

No Library folder inside Home folder

Hello to all!
i am trying to find an old iphone back up
I have found that iphone back ups are located in side each users home folder under
library/applicationsupport/mobilesync
The weird thing is that i go to my home folder but there is no Library folder there!!
what am i doing wrong?

hi e-Novator,
Welcome to the forums.
Have you tried a direct link?
go to the dock
click on finder
go to the menu bar
click on the go menu
chose "Go To Folder..."
a small box will pop up called "Go To Folder..."
in the box type "~/Library"
click the "Go" button
cheers,
-tt

Library folder missing after removing a small disc from the disc drive.

Recently, one of my relatives accidentally put a disc inside our iMac disc drive that was too small. We didn't know what to do, so we called one of our neighbors. He read instructions online and was able to remove the disc without harm done to anything in and on the iMac. The system rebooted, and everything had looked back to normal. Once I used the iMac again, I saw that I had no ability to change desktop images. Everything was a grey rectangle with a question mark in it. I had no idea why. On to another subject. One of my sons loves to play a game called Minecraft. After the reboot, he noticed that wouldn't work either. He figured out the the main .jar file was located in Library>Application Support>Minecraft. We then figured out our Library folder was missing. I have no idea how to get it back, or what to do. Please help me ASAP. Also, this happened BEFORE the OS X Lion update, which we now have.
Thanks,
Karen.

sorry it's 2:30am and I just lost 2-3 days work.crashing after this note.
I had backups and reloaded from 3-days back on a seperate drive _ 'files'
this was created after the crash when I tried to restart lightroom..this is in root of OS disk I was using a seperate drive. named 'photos2'
this drive filled up on import and lightroom crashed on rendering previews 666gi of usable space
should be 45+ gigs available trying to delete files..something went wrong..when lightroom crashed!
I will not try and build a single catalog master system for 250000 plus photos, I lost the 60000 new images added to catelog..and last few days cleaning, filing and rating..harsh way to loose a weekend!
the program possibly filled the drive and corrupted a sector of disk some how??..my best synopsis at this time.
I'm at a loss and just wanted to report my experiance, I know finalcut had a preffence to not fill a disk past a certin point in this case 4.5 gigs seems to be the last sector..I'll check LR
Check back tomorrow.. I'm going down a looser..thanks for your help!..let you know if cocktail fixes anything.
cheers
Darrin

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