Go to the user 'deger' and hidden files and folder are shown. For example, you can see the Library that saves iTunes backup appears. You can open it to see iTunes backup file. As you know, when hidden files are not shown, you cannot open iTunes backup file with this method in Finder. Step 3: Hide hidden files or folder with Terminal. Click on your Users folder, open it in Column view, and select View Show View Options then check the box for Show Library Folder If Library isn’t an option, check that you’re in Column View Select your User folder, and press Command+ J. Then check the box for Show Library Folder.
From OSX 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.7 Lion, the /Library and ~/Library are hidden from the Finder – to show these directories in the GUI, launch Terminal from Applications/Utilities and run the command below with sudo and enter your admin password when requested:
Make Library Folder Visible On Sierra Download
to hide again:
You can apply this to any directories in the filing system – so to see the hidden contents of the private folder including /etc you would apply:
But you cannot hide/show defined invisible files/folders that are preceded by a “.” with chflags
To show all hidden files and folders, that start with a ‘.’ , back to Terminal in OSX 10.9 Mavericks:
Getting back to cleanliness:
To show all hidden files and folders, that start with a ‘.’ , back to Terminal for earlier versions of OSX 10.8 and prior:
Macos Make Library Folder Visible
Getting back to cleanliness: