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Up to OS X 10.7 Lion, accessing the Library folder was quite simple; all you needed to do is navigate to your Home folder, and from there you could access the Library folder. But from OS X 10.8 onwards, Apple has hidden the Library folder, meaning it won't show up in your Home folder anymore. This Mac download was checked by our built-in antivirus and was rated as malware free. This program's bundle is identified as Library Books. The actual developer of this software for Mac is Harold Chu. This program was developed to work on Mac OS X 10.6 or later. Delete unnecessary files in /System/Library for Mac OS X. From processes that do bad things with root access, but the amount of people I see on the. The Library folder, at the root level of your Mac OS X Lion hard drive, is like a public library; it stores items available to everyone who logs into an account on this Mac. You can find three Library folders on your hard drive: the one at the root level of your OS X disk, a second inside the root-level System folder, and a third in your Home. Where is my Mac's Library folder? Prior to Mac OS X Lion's release back in 2011, if you wanted to access the Library folder you could just open your Home folder and view the Library folder there.

Have you noticed missing '~/Library' folder in macOS?

Also have below questions?

  • How to view the ~/Library folder in Mavericks
  • My Library folder is missing. What do I do?
  • Missing Library folder in Mac OS X Lion
  • Re-Enable Your Library Folder In Mac OS X
  • How to Reveal Your Library Folder in Lion or macOS

This is a simple step to unhide '-> ~/Library' folder in your Mac OS X:

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You should see Library folder now.

Additional macOS tips: How to quickly Show/Hide Hidden Files on macOS?

  • Show Hidden Files in Mac OS X
  • View Hidden Folders on Your Mac Using Terminal
  • How to Show Hidden Files on Mac OS X
  • macOS & Show Hidden Files
  • Quick Tip: Revealing Hidden Files in OS X

If you have any of above questions then just follow steps mentioned on this post:

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Question or issue on macOS:

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I've been looking at adding iTunes Library access to a Mac app I'm developing.

I looked at some of the existing open source implementations, such as EyeTunes and iMedia – but found them to not be quite what I was looking for. Overkill in general.

So I tried out using the Scripting Bridge, and found that while functional it was slow. And since I didn't really need to control iTunes, the slowness was not worth it. It also had the downside of relying on iTunes to be running. It also is a bit irritating to get it working in a sandboxed app (though possible.)

So I finally started to roll my own by reading the iTunes Library.xml file. That seems to be working OK. But in the process of investigating the meaning of the Distinguished Kind key/value I stumbled upon a brand new, Apple supplied iTunesLibrary.framework !!!

Beautiful – the iTunesLibrary framework docs are here.

However, when I try to initialize the framework using the code as shown in the reference link:

It returns nil and provides the very helpful error like so (in my Sandboxed app):

Access Library Mac Os X

Thinking it might be a sandboxing issue, I also created a quick command line utility that attempts to init the library and it returns an almost identical error:

Has anyone else tried out this new iTunes Library framework with anymore luck than I have had?

// EDIT: Answer below is correct. Code signing is required. The sample code in the answer is a handy starting point for using the framework. Additionally, in my case the problem was also that the iTunesLibrary framework code does not appear to work when the iTunes library is hosted on a network drive. Make this a bit of a deal breaker unless Apple fixes it.

How to solve this problem?

Solution no. 1:

You'll need to codesign your app using a certificate from the Mac Developer Program.

It's not documented anywhere, but, my suspicion is that this requirement was added due to iTunes cloud being a web service thing that requires accessing user accounts.

// Edit: In addition to setting CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY in the project settings as discussed above, you will also need to add /Library/Frameworks to the FRAMEWORK_SEARCH_PATHS in the project settings so that Xcode will know where to look for the #import's.

// Edit 2: I wrote a quick little sample app to show how iTunesLibrary is used, since, Apple's sample code and documentation is rather sparse: https://github.com/zadr/iTunesLibraryExample

Solution no. 2:

From iTunes Library Framework Reference

  • You must code sign your app in order to get information back from the
    iTunes Library framework.
  • The iTunes Library framework is available to users running iTunes
    v11.0 or above.

Solution no. 3:

Not sure if this is true for all of you, but in my case, I kept Code-Signing-Identity to - helped me. Now I don't need to sign the app.

Hope this helps!





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