Hi Alan, The "Sticky" does not need more info, what Daniel said is absolutely correct; you are confusing /Library with ~/Library.
In Lion & Mountain Lion, if you Option-click the Go menu, your Home Library folder (~/Library) magically appears in the menu; choose Library from the menu to open the folder in the Finder. The path you would have pasted is not what you typed below: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ (that is the Library located at the root of your Hard Drive) The path you would have typed is as Daniel mentioned ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ (that is the Library located in your Home Library)... the tilde (~) represents your Home folder. Cheers, Ronni On 05/11/2012, at 7:44 PM, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel > > Thanks for the solution. You said: > >> If you know the exact folder, you can alway use the Go menu and type the >> exact address as well. >> Choose Go then "Go to Folder…" Paste in what you want,…e.g. >> ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ >> And BANG,..there it is. > > I tried that and pasted in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ - - - and BANG, there > was the folder with expected entries! > > The "sticky" needs more info! The Option key and Go menu process has a trap > for beginners: Must select Macintosh HD first: all other levels access the > User library (which also has plug-ins). > > Cheers > Alan > > > On 05/11/2012, at 7:05 PM, Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Go to Finder - hold down Option key, click on Go menu. Choose "Library" >> (User library). >> Folder will be there. Then you can get to the internet Plug-Ins folder. >> >> If you know the exact folder, you can alway use the Go menu and type the >> exact address as well. >> Choose Go then "Go to Folder…" Paste in what you want,…e.g. >> ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ >> And BANG,..there it is. >> >> (I'm sure how to do this should be a sticky on the WAMUG webpage,….lol). >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Apple** >> >> On 05/11/2012, at 6:59 PM, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I want to remove the Google Earth Web Plug-in from Safari. Apple Support >>> doc PH11931 (and Google help documentation) show the plug-in location as >>> /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ (or alternatively in ~/Library/Internet >>> Plug-Ins/ ). The Google plug-in does not appear in /Library/. The >>> ~/Library/ folder does not exist (or is hidden). Any suggestions? >>> >>> Reason for removal is first attempt to fix Safari quitting unexpectedly. >>> This occurs irregularly and possibly started when Mountain Lion was >>> installed over Snow Leopard. >>> >>> I get Console log messages regularly each hour similar to this: >>> kernel: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=4608[GoogleSoftwareUp] >>> clearing CS_VALID >>> >>> I have Safari 6.0.2 installed, with OS X 10.8.2. >>> >>> Regards, Alan >>> >>> Alan Smith >>> Late 2009 iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8.2 >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121105/f290b26b/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
