One of Apple's "big brother" features introduced in Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (now called plain ol' OS X Lion) is the hiding of the user's Library folder. While this may be a fine precaution for ...

In OS X Lion Apple decided to hide the Library folder where most of your configuration and cache files are located. This is fine for most people, but for those of us who like to tinker it's a bit ...

For some reason, the Apple's OS X 10.9.3 update has been hiding the /Users directory for a lot of users. So, if you need easy access to that folder, you'll need to enter in a Terminal command. To ...

MacOS allows you to hide files and folders by adding a simple period (.) to the file name. This can be handy if you want to share your MacBook with others and hide personal folders that other users ...

In macOS, the library folder is used to store user account settings, preference files, app support files, caches, and other important data that allows your Mac to function as it should. Making ...

Apple Knowledge Base article 106465 states: "Under certain conditions, the applications in the Dock appear with folder icons and cannot be opened. This most likely occurs after reinstalling Mac OS X ...

Update 2014-05-17: There is strong evidence via The Mac Observer that this was caused by an odd combination of iTunes 11.2 and Find My Mac, not 10.9.3. Apple even mentioned a related permissions issue ...