{"id":17286,"date":"2017-02-23T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17286"},"modified":"2017-04-07T13:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:15:45","slug":"opening-the-user-library-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/opening-the-user-library-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening the User Library Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Griffiths<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, I wrote about an apparent change in Finder’s Library shortcut key<\/a>. To wit, it used to be that holding the Option key down would reveal a Library entry in Finder’s Go menu.<\/p>\n

However, on my iMac and rMBP running macOS 10.12.3—and on others’ Macs, as my report was based on similar<\/a> findings<\/a> by Michael Tsai and Kirk McElhearn—the Option key no longer worked; it was the Shift key. But on a third Mac here, running the 10.12.4 beta, the shortcut was back to the Option key.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

After some experimentation, I was able to discover why the shortcut key changes, and how to change it between Shift and Option at any time. This clearly isn’t a feature, so I guess it’s a bug, but it’s a weird bug.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Update (2017-04-07): Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My suspicion is that this weird Finder state, which may date back to the Sierra betas, can be triggered in ways other than relaunching the Finder. Quitting or force-quitting the Finder from within Activity Monitor doesn’t seem to do it, but I can imagine other scenarios that might leave the Finder in an unusual state — a kernel panic, for instance, or a loss of power to the Mac. Over years of usage, it’s easy to see something like this happening to many people.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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