Sometimes people may find their hard-drive space being progressively used up, and there are many reasons why this could happen. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Apple set things up so that the user Library folder isn’t available to the casual user. This is probably to keep less savvy folks from getting in there and messing about with ...

Back in OS X Lion and then again in OS X Mountain Lion, Apple hid access to the user Library folder to prevent neophyte OS X users from messing around in the areas of the file system that could cause ...

If you have photographs, videos, documents and PDFs saved to your computer, and who doesn't, you're using folders to organize them. Just like their real-world counterparts, folders are useful to keep ...

How do I access the usually hidden USER library folder remotely? Locally, I can access it from the Finder with the Go menu while holding down the Option key, that is not possible remotely. As you may ...

How can I open the user Library folder in a disk image located on an external disk? The technique of selecting Go and holding down the Option key reverts to desktop computer. You can check your path ...

Windows Libraries is a centralized place for bringing together all the related files from a different folder or different PCs. Precisely, Libraries are a collection of shortcuts to the original file ...

You got it backwards. I have a slight bias towards not trying to protect non-technical users from doing dumb things. Hiding ~/Library is fine, because it's so easy to get around, but I don't ...