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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1888851" data-attributes="member: 396914">Your library is hidden from you by default. You can change that. I think part of the problem is that you are trying to access the &quot;hard drive&quot; in the images in #47, but you don't have the privileges to do that because part of that &quot;hard drive&quot; in Big Sur is the read-only and encrypted System Volume. Basically, in Big Sur there are two Volumes in the Container created by the installation process. One is labelled &quot;Macintosh HD&quot; by default, but seems to be &quot;MacBook NCB&quot; on your machine. That's fine to be renamed. However, there is also a Volume named &quot;MacBook NCB - Data&quot; in that same Container, which is where your account is stored and is the ONLY Volume you actually have permission to write to directly. If you want to verify that for yourself, you can open Disk Utility and see the Container with the two Volumes in it. There may be other Volumes there, too, but only these two are of any significance to you.OK, with that background, your own Library, in the screenshot you showed, can be made unhidden. Here is an article with four suggestions: <a href="https://appletoolbox.com/unhide-access-mac-library-folder/" target="_blank">https://appletoolbox.com/unhide-access-mac-library-folder/</a>&nbsp; Make a backup first, then try these to see if you can unhide (un-grey) the Library.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1888851, member: 396914"] Your library is hidden from you by default. You can change that. I think part of the problem is that you are trying to access the "hard drive" in the images in #47, but you don't have the privileges to do that because part of that "hard drive" in Big Sur is the read-only and encrypted System Volume. Basically, in Big Sur there are two Volumes in the Container created by the installation process. One is labelled "Macintosh HD" by default, but seems to be "MacBook NCB" on your machine. That's fine to be renamed. However, there is also a Volume named "MacBook NCB - Data" in that same Container, which is where your account is stored and is the ONLY Volume you actually have permission to write to directly. If you want to verify that for yourself, you can open Disk Utility and see the Container with the two Volumes in it. There may be other Volumes there, too, but only these two are of any significance to you. OK, with that background, your own Library, in the screenshot you showed, can be made unhidden. Here is an article with four suggestions: [URL]https://appletoolbox.com/unhide-access-mac-library-folder/[/URL] Make a backup first, then try these to see if you can unhide (un-grey) the Library. [/QUOTE]

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