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Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder

And yet I feel dirty, like I'm using a Windows computer where settings are deliberately obfuscated and hidden away inside dialog boxes you can only get under special circumstances...
I would never have discovered this in a million years... or more likely would have seen but not noticed it because it's right in front of me...

Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder
It's one of 19 different ways of accessing the Library folder. It's not like it's under the Properties button of the fourth tab of the tenth-level nested dialog, like you get in ... the other place.
Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the hint and think this is a clever solution (better than many of the other 19 ways in terms of being more direct and less of a hack.)
Excuse me I have go tell some children to go back to walking on the sidewalk.

Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder

I'm on Mavericks (10.9) but not seeing this option. Using the Go to folder menu, I open my user library folder ~/Library. I then go to View Options, but there is no option to reveal the folder. What gives?

Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder

Is there a (similar) way to view all the files in the root (/) directory? And the equivalent of cd around in them?
Not for the faint of heart or non-UNIX sorts of folks, but it might be easier than going to Terminal, &c.

Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder

Excellent. I hope this setting is kept between system updates unlike the terminal solution which needs to be applied everytime. Well, 10.9.1 will show that… :-)

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Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder

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A quibble for your consideration:
The option to view the user Library folder is only available for a window at the top level of the user's Home folder ( i.e. a window showing just the contents of the user's Home folder).
Other views 'showing the user's home folder' do not have a selectable option for viewing the users private Library folder. ( /Users for example )
Once selected within the user's Home folder window, however, the effect of the option is available in every view that reveals the contents of the user's Home folder.
Like I said... a quibble.

Mavericks offers an easier way to reveal the user's Library folder

Surely this should be in 10.9, not OS X, as it's a Mavericks-specific hint?

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