Years of frustration, still no closer to finding or renaming catalog

If you can help me it will be a monumental help with a task that has failed over and over again, mostly because of the complexity.
Problem: I want to rename my catalog file and have it open as the default file. It somehow got a new name while I tried to use Lightroom on the road and then put those pictures back into the existing catalog at home on an external where my main calalog resides.
So now, I see I can rename my catalog at the finder level, so, easy, except... where is that catalog? I have no idea where the catalog is that Lightroom is using to open as the default.
I guess, if I could find it, I would be halfway there at least.
Help in this area would be greatly appreciated. Also, when searching these forums for 'Where is my catalog?' there were no direct answers on the subject, does that mean that I am the only one who can't find my catalog at the finder level? Why doesn't Adobe incorporate a 'show catalog in finder' in the file dropdown so that users can quickly where the catalog is?
TIA,
Ken

Matt M Johnson wrote:
If you are on a Mac - right click (or press Control and click if you have a one button mouse) on the catalog name at the top of the Lightroom window.  It will show you the directory structure, select the parent folder and finder will open.
Fantastic, and now I have renamed everything at the finder level and will now attempt to open Lightroom and see what happens.
Okay, despite my fears that smoke would pour from the computer and all hard drives would melt, The renaming was a success, at least I was able to point Lightroom to the renamed catalog as I navigated through scary choices like 'open default catalog?' whatever that is... I just kept my eyes on the road and with a white knuckle grip on the wacom stylus kept navigating through to open another catalog so I could find my way to the renamed catalog where I clicked on that and now all is well.
My question now is, will this become the default catalog as I wish it to be?
Whew, thanks guys,
Ken
PS: Yes, just tried it and it defaults to the renamed version now. Wow, this is a red-letter-day!

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