~/user/library directory go

Where did the user library directory disappear to? I opened my HDD and under username I don't see it anymore.
I was looking for ~/username/library/preferences location

You can access it by going to Go on menu bar, then click the option key and the library appears. Apple hides it under Lion.

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Did you know that the User Library Directory is not Backed Up by TimeMachine unless its visible?

It is the default both in LION and Mountain LION OSX systems to hide the user's Library Directory from visibility. This actually causes a nasty problem with Time Machine Backups and the inevitable Restore. Because it is invisible, it is never picked up by Time Machine and backed up. Thus if one decides to do a restore from a time machine backup it is a complete fail. You must unhide the directory to back it up to time machine.

Not exactly. It is backed up, and if you do a full restore you will get it back (I have done this). It is just hidden in TM just as it is on your HD. No worries about the TM backup. All is backed up.

Why can't I see user /Library directory?

I wanted to find the filename(s) for the Contacts file on my machine. I wanted to save off the file, and then start pruning old contacts from it. I wanted to save the actual file w/out having to rely on TImeMachine.
I found from other searches that my Contacts list should be in a file called Metadata. I found this folder (seems to contain each individual contact in a file).
Get Info says the folder is in /users/<me>/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/.....
However, when I look at Macintosh HD, there is a /Library directory at the root level, that doesn't have AddressBook under Application Support, but under name /Users/<me>/ , no Library directory is displayed.
Is there an option I have to set somewhere to make the directory visible? How do I do it?
If not, why is it telling me the data is somewhere that doesn't seem to exist?
Thanks,
Cindy

Updating iTunes will help.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5434

Library directory compatibility

Hello all,
I've got a Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 machine. Sometimes - not always, and I have not been able to detect a pattern here - a user who has previously logged into their NIS-authenticated account on a 10.5 or 10.6 machine can not do so on the 10.7 one. Removal of the users ~/Library directory seems to solve that problem.
Has anyone experienced this issue? Does anyone know what in the ~/Library may be the cause of that incompatibility?
Thanks.
Boris.

Runiq wrote:Give the volume a label or call it by UUID?
Thank you! But I'm afraid that the fstab entry doesn't work. I have changed to an UUID scheme and tried some different options, but with anyone of them I get an unprivileged error like this:
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sdd1 on /media/Iomega
perbh wrote:I guess this is where polkit comes in - sorry, I think the whole polkit issue is an abdomination and I try to stay away from it ...
Misfit138 wrote:Agreed.
Change does not equal progress. The whole *kit debacle can be described like, "How to make something simple into something complex and convoluted in 32,768 easy steps."
I don't know what polkit is, could you point me to some source of info?
Anyway if you as more experienced users try to stay away from it the sensible thing is that I do too, I may end up running mpd under my user to be able to access the files (I'm lucky that I'm the only user of this machine).
Thank you very much for your answers and time.

Can't install fonts in user/library/fonts folder

I have a problem which has a number of different symptoms (I presume they are related as they all started at the same time):
I can't install any fonts into my user/library/fonts folder. Or, rather, I can install them but they vanish about five seconds later
I have three files on my desktop. Every 60 seconds (precisely) they vanish for about a second and then reappear
Seemingly randomly, but always when I empty the trash, I get a message saying "The last time you opened Finder, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again?"
The error message I get in (3) above always disappears when the desktop files blink as in (2) above.
These problems only started in the last 24 hours. Yesterday I installed an update which took me to Mail 6.6. I also installed a Microsoft update to Word. I also installed an update for TechTool Pro taking me from v6 to v7.
Solutions I have tried:
I have checked SMART status (no problems)
I have verified volume structures (no problems)
I have reset boot and kernel caches
I have deleted font caches
I have reset home directory permissions and ACLs
I'm running a MacBookPro with Mountain Lion 10.8.5
I am stuck, puzzled, frustrated but hopeful that someone in this community can help me out.
If you can, I would be so very very grateful.

ruby335 wrote:
I do not have any start up disc. And I am not sure what a recovery HD for Lion is? I do have a Carbon copy of my drive
Details in Recovery and About OS X Recovery. Also, see Computers using Internet Recovery.
If I am reading it correctly, do I boot using the drive copy, change premissions using utility, then reboot using the original drive? Is there another way to repair premissions, change password?
See
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/24/reset-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-password/ and
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/19/change-password-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-without-knowin g-current-password/
Also when I called Wacom support they actually had me create a new user account to install the software. It's odd that I can install the fonts in the applications folder in one user account but they do not show up in the administrator account.
As I stated, if that new account was an admin one, the fonts should be available to all users. Alternatively, they might be user specific, but you'll have to ask Wacom about that.

Can''t see inbox.mbox file in user library

For some reason, I can't see a .mbox file for my inbox when I look in my user library Mail folder. I can see a junk.mbox; I can see a deleted messages.mbox, but no inbox.mbox (or sent.mbox, for that matter). Can someone tell me where those messages live in the library? They must be somewhere, but I can't seem to find them. I am about to migrate to a new Mac Pro, and want to make sure everything gets to the new machine. I am currently using my laptop as my main machine, because my aging dual-867 mhz. MDD machine is nursing a dying hard drive, and nothing has been able to repair it, so I stopped using it. Of course, I still have a lot of mail on the old machine, and I wanted to archive the inbox contents to a .mbox file that I could import to the new computer. Are these mailboxes different from other mail folders? Thanks for any help.

Hi and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, 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. (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. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates.

Where is user library?

I can't seem to find my user library... I have looked in all the obvious places. Any suggestions?

You didn't complete a profile so we don't know what version of OS X you are using. However instructions for Lion and Mountain Lion are in:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/04/show-library-directory-in-mac-os-x-lion/
Please complete your profile so the next time you post we have a little bit of knowlege about your system. It makes it easier for you and espcially those trying to help you.

Library directory (8.2 ini file/preferences)

I would like to move the library folders, and I found in the help files the option to change the library directory, but it doesn't show up in the preferences window, and adding anything to labview.ini does nothing. Is this a problem with the documentation? Or is it just poorly documented?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I think it was possible in 8.0 but I tried it and moved my user.lib...
It sucked, scared a lot of LabVIEW tools software and I have turned it off. (So has done NI).
Is there a reason why you want to do this?
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Netbeans 6.9.1 & J2EE 6 & Shared Library Directory = Classpath errors

Wohoo,
starting as a forum newbie....again :s
Anyway, I've run into some troubles during the setup of my very first J2EE 6 project in Netbeans. I've installed Netbeans 6.9.1 and the included Glassfish v3 server runtime. Then I've created a new J2EE 6 project using Netbeans J2EE project wizard. Said wizard has an option: "Use shared library directory". I ticked this option and specified the shared library directory to be "lib". Then I've added JAR files to it, but somehow this JARs are not added to the classpath of the dependent EJB and Web project. Any time I try to import a class from one of the EAR libraries I get the compile-time ClassNotFound error in the IDE.
I'm a seasoned Eclipse user, and only recently have switched over to Netbeans (mostly out of curiosity). In Eclipse the ${EarProject}/lib folder was automatically recognized as the EAR's lib folder, and any JAR files added to it where available for all J2EE modules in the EAR project. After consulting the integrated Netbeans help on the topic I was convinced that this should work the same in Netbeans. Can any experienced Netbeans developer assist me in this please?
PS: I'm sorry if this is the inappropriate forum category, but the old "Netbeans" category from the Sun Forums seems to have disappeared during the forum transition.
EDIT: on an unrelated note I'd like to bring to your attention that this is the first "real Java question" in this forum :D ("Wohoo this is new" posts don't count)
Edited by: 791078 on 24.09.2010 18:27

Michael Schmid wrote:
Wohoo,
starting as a forum newbie....again :s
Anyway, I've run into some troubles during the setup of my very first J2EE 6 project in Netbeans. I've installed Netbeans 6.9.1 and the included Glassfish v3 server runtime. Then I've created a new J2EE 6 project using Netbeans J2EE project wizard. Said wizard has an option: "Use shared library directory". I ticked this option and specified the shared library directory to be "lib". Then I've added JAR files to it, but somehow this JARs are not added to the classpath of the dependent EJB and Web project. Any time I try to import a class from one of the EAR libraries I get the compile-time ClassNotFound error in the IDE.
I'm a seasoned Eclipse user, and only recently have switched over to Netbeans (mostly out of curiosity). In Eclipse the ${EarProject}/lib folder was automatically recognized as the EAR's lib folder, and any JAR files added to it where available for all J2EE modules in the EAR project. After consulting the integrated Netbeans help on the topic I was convinced that this should work the same in Netbeans. Can any experienced Netbeans developer assist me in this please?
PS: I'm sorry if this is the inappropriate forum category, but the old "Netbeans" category from the Sun Forums seems to have disappeared during the forum transition.
EDIT: on an unrelated note I'd like to bring to your attention that this is the first "real Java question" in this forum :D ("Wohoo this is new" posts don't count)
Edited by: 791078 on 24.09.2010 18:27You are right, these are the wrong forums. Post your question here: http://forums.netbeans.org/ , if you want help from people who regularly userNetbeans.

Library directory hidden?

Hello,
I've just realized, that Photoshop is saving configuration files in the Library directory (below user account level). In Finder I cannot see this directory and I even do not see those files, if I search for them with the Finder tool. Is this directory hidden? How can I have access to that?
I just see a Library directory on the very top level and this does not seem to be the same?
Thanks for feedback,
Vanillia

In the FInder, hold the option (or alt) key and click on the 'Go' menu
Regards
TD

Access the user/library from a Time Capsule File

Ich habe vergessen die Mail-Library und das Adressbuch zu sichern, bevor ich den alten Computer entsorgte. Die Dateien sind aber noch im Time Capsule vorhanden. Wie kann ich die Benutzer-Library hervorholen, unter OSX Lion ist sie versteckt und ist nur mit <alt> Gehe zu sichtbar.
I forgot to save the User/library ie the addressbook and the mailfiles of my old LapTop. Now I got the Bakupfiles from Time Capsule but the Lybrary is hidden in OSX Lion! How can I manage this problem?
Thanks for hints.
macsmbw

Ich habe das Directory auf den Desktop gesichert.

How to convert to LV 7 user library to LV 2010 one?

Hi,
I received a LV 7 user library for a Bristol Wavemeter. I dropped it into the user.lib folder of LV 2010. I opened LV 2010 and could see the icon for the driver but the subfolders were all 'question mark' icons. Dragging any one of them to a programming page did nothing.
I tried to follow the instruction to convert the user library to an instrument driver but failed.
I appreciate for any helps.
Regards.
Fang

Hello,
Dennis is correct. Per the compatibility chart I list below, there should be no problem opening the library in 2010. You may also want to mass compile the directory which I list a link to the LV documentation below as well.
How Do I Add an Instrument Driver or a Custom SubVI to the Functions Palette?
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/1D0D514BC3852BFD8625685F007BC976?OpenDocument
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http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361G-01/lvdialog/mass_compile_db/
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Where does "Library" directory location belong.

Where does Library directory location belong. Had to move things around and not sure it got back in the right place.. /Users/forister/Documents .. forister is the administrator and only user now after trying out profiles.
Then I wanted to install something and it said to put it in this location, but it isn't working. Did I screw it up?
New Mac user.
thanks.

"~/Library" refers to a folder (directory) in your home folder, not in /System/ or elsewhere. (The tilde is UNIX shorthand for the current user's home folder.)
You haven't said which version of OS X you are using but if it is Snow Leopard (10.6.x) or older, ~/Library should be visible in Finder views of your home folder (the one with the house icon). If you are using Lion, you won't see it there but you will see it from the "Go" menu if you hold down the option key when you click on that menu.
Another way to get to the folder in Finder is to type Command + Shift + G, then type "~/Library/Services" (without the quotes) & press the Go button.
As the Read Me for QuickFiles says, you may have to create the Services folder in ~/Library/ if it doesn't already exist. To do that, open ~/Library/ & type Command + Shift + N, then type "Services" to name the untitled folder, then press return.

How do I get another users Library folder visible?

I'm struggling getting Lion to work properly on one of my Macs. Successful installation on 3 other machines, but this one is driving me nuts. It basically lost my passwords and I've had to create a new account in order to use the machine.
Anyway, at this point I've got one user account setup for myself and I can log in and out with that one. Problem is the other user account on the machine, which is my old one, has all my Library files I'd like to copy to this "new user." This includes, for instance, dozens of Mailboxes I saved "on my Mac" for use in Mail. Rather than have to recreate all those mailboxes, and then find the proper emails to copy to them, I want to simply copy the ones I've already created to my new user Library folder.
I know how to make the Library folder visible, and have done that for my "new" account. But the mailbox folders/files I want are in my old user account and I can't figure out a way to make that Library folder visible since I don't have my old password.
When I try to reset the password for the old account, it refuses to do it.
Is there some way in Terminal to navigate over to the directory where my old, now hidden, Library folder lives and make that one visible?
Thanks,
Howard

Holding the option key is a very crude solution, however...
This guy, in the second steps, explains how to get it back permanently: http://baumdesign.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/find-restore-skype-5-2-chat-history-i n-mac-os-x-lion/

Problem with user home directory redirection on OS X

It appears that the Authorware 7.01 runtime gets confused
when home directory redirection is used on Mac OS X to redirect a
user's directory to the network.
I suspect it is a problem with the path to the Application
Support folder where Authorware stores its .rec files.
That happens is that JumpFileReturn returns to the start of
the piece, rather then returning to where the jump was performed.
As anyone else seen this? Is there any workaround?
On Windows one can setup and ini file to tell Authorware
where to store temporary files. Is there any such equivalent on
Mac?

I'm not sure of the process on macs that match the use of the
ini file, but
the goal was always identical operation on both platforms so
it's very
likely that the ini file is read and interpreted in the same
manner.
It seems that the 'initial' location of the current records
folder is the
one that's messed up. The .rec file is created on the local
machine rather
than the redirected one. I can only guess that either the
home folder isn't
redirected until after the first AW piece starts or the
initial setting is
being set to a 'default' location for the user rather than
asking the system
what the current location is. A solution might be to create a
"launcher"
application with Authorware designed to start up and jump to
what is
currently your startup piece. This way the RecordsLocation
should be changed
to the network location and you can ignore the original rec
file since
you'll never return to that first location.
HTH
====================
Mike Baker
Adobe Community Expert
[email protected]
"peterevensen" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mac OS X, you can set a workstation up to have the
user's directory
> (including the preferences folder, etc.) on a file
server. If one sets up
a
> Mac workstation to do this, Authorware quits working
properly when you
jump
> between pieces.
>
> The piece is set up correctly. I don't touch the User
Record location.
The
> pieces are set to resume and work fine if the user's
directory is not
> redirected.
>
> When Authorware jumps to another piece/file, it dumps
out a *.rec file
> containing the current state. These are stored on the
Mac in <user
> directory>/Library/Application
Support/Macromedia/AW7Data folder. When
the
> user directory is redirect to the network and the user
exits the file that
was
> jumped to, the original piece starts over from the
beginning. This is
the
> same behavior you see if Authorware cannot write out the
*.rec file (e.g.,
if
> you write protected the above folder, or the equivalent
folder on Windows,
> hence the change in AW 6.5
>
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16607&sliceId=1
>
> This problem has been reported in the field several
times. I haven't set
up a
> server yet to reproduce it, but my assumption is that
Authorware is not
getting
> the path or not handling the path to the user's
Application Support
properly
> when it is redirected to a network server.
>
> On Windows, there is an .ini file which can be used to
change where
Authorware
> stores temporary file (.rec). I don't believe there is
an equivalent for
the
> Mac runtime, is there? I see that I could change that
path using the path
> parameters in JumpFileReturn, but does that change where
the current piece
your
> jumping from writes out the .rec file? It would be
preferable if I could
> change it globally once, rather than going into the 100s
of pieces I am
> maintaining.
>
> I'm not sure an aw7.ini would fix the problem in any
case, since I am not
sure
> where one could safely map the user record location,
since this is a
multi-user
> environment. You couldn't map everyone to the same
location.
>
> Your reply, while not answering my question directly,
has pointed me to
some
> more things to look at (like the path parameter on
JumpFileReturn),
although
> I'm not sure why Authorware isn't working without
changing that. If you
have
> any additional suggestion, I would greatly appreciate
it!
>
>
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> I'm not sure what you're asking. Can you provide more
detail? Are you
> using JumpFileReturn to launch another file, which also
sets a different
> UserRecord location? And that doesn't work...how?
> Do you have 'resume' set in the File Preferences instead
of 'restart'?
> Erik
>
>
>
>

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