Re: [libreoffice-users] User Profile on a Mac

Thank you to the Mac users for explaining how to find hidden folders in Finder.

Virgil

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From: Italo Vignoli <italo@vignoli.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2025 4:54 AM
To: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>; users@global.libreoffice.org 
<users@global.libreoffice.org>
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

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