Thank you to the Mac users for explaining how to find hidden folders in Finder.
Virgil Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Italo Vignoli <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2025 4:54 AM To: Virgil Arrington <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] User Profile on a Mac You can access macOS Library from the Finder. To visualize the Library, open a Finder window and click on the Go menu while pressing the Option key, as otherwise the Library is hidden from you. On 09/01/25 23:42, Virgil Arrington wrote: > After nearly 40 years of using Microsoft OS’s as well as a few years of > playing with various flavors of Linux, I recently purchased a MacBook. Don’t > ask why; it’s a painful story. > > I am running macOS Sonoma 14.7.2. > > I installed LO 24.8 from the LibreOffice website and not from the Apple Store. > > I am now trying to use Finder (Mac’s file explorer) to find my user profile > and templates as I would like to copy some of my custom templates from my > Windows computer over to the MacBook. > > According to LO’s preferences (options) under “paths,” my templates are > stored in: > > Users/(UserName)/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4/user/template > > However, when I go into Users/(UserName)/ there is no subfolder called > “Library.” > > I can get to a folder called “Library/Application Support” from the main > directory of “MacIntosh HD” but there is no subfolder called “LibreOffice” in > “Library/Application Support” > > I assume things must be hidden in Finder, but I can see no setting in Finder > to “show hidden files” as I would see in either Windows or Linux. > > Could any of you other Mac users give a complete Mac NOOB some guidance as to > how to find my user profile in Finder? > > Thanks > > Virgil > -- Italo Vignoli - [email protected] mobile/signal/whatsapp +39.348.5653829 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
