Why can't i view my hard drive anymore?

I used to be able to open and browse through my hard drive, after updating to mavericks many of my filed are gone, no idea where they all ended up, but i would really like to acutally see my hard drive, not just my user account!
i had games in the library and applications folders, and now i have no access to the library folder (which held well over 100GB of games) and my application folder is my shared one, not my personal one.

The User Library is hidden in Mavericks. Do a Google search about how to show the User library. There are 2 Applications folders. Open Finder, the Applications in the sidebar is the shared applications folder. Click on our User and the Applications folder within your user is your personal Applications folder.
If you had stuff installed in the Library folder before the upgrade then there is a chance it was removed during the upgrade.

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