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You'd have a better argument if they got rid of the Library folder completely. Just because it's not a single click away anymore doesn't justify the slippery slope argument. OS X is not Linux. It's targeted to the general computer using populace and happens to be quite popular and useful for a very small minority of people like us. They still allow us to do everything we used to, it's just that they've hidden a few things that confused the normals out there. Big whoop.

Hold down Alt while clicking the Go menu to see your Library folder.

Your assertion that it isn't a slippery slope is subjective, as is my assertion that it is. Both viewpoints are valid.

However, I reject your solution. It's my machine, I want it to be a pleasant experience to develop on, I don't want to memorize a workarounds for a bunch of trivial problems that I have to apply to every machine I use.

I'm taking the defensive position of not investing too much of my time in their products because I think they will remove access to those folders, or lock down on application installs, or otherwise make the experience wretched for me sometime in the future.

> Hold down Alt while clicking the Go menu to see your Library folder.

or

    (sudo??) chflags nohidden /Library
    chflags nohidden ~/Library

in Terminal (to make it visible all the time)

It has been my experience that this doesn't persist for whatever reason. I did it before and now it's hidden again.

That's because point releases (10.8.1, etc.) hide it again!

Ah, I thought that might be it. How irritating.

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