Luckily, as I mentioned, the folder is just hidden, using a special file attribute called the hidden flag. While I understand Apple’s motives here-I’ve had to troubleshoot more than a few Macs on which an inexperienced user had munged the contents of ~/Library-there are plenty of valid reasons a user might need to access their personal Library folder. But that’s fodder for a different article.) Yes, I realize that’s a questionable assumption, given that the first user account on a Mac is always set up as an admin account. (Why hide ~/Library but not /Library, the similar folder located at the root level of your drive, which holds systemwide support files? Most likely because only admin users can modify /Library, and Apple assumes that a user with admin-level privileges will know what he or she is doing.
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