Some additional Google searches revealed a geeky technique for using a Terminal command to show the Library in the User folder, but I really wanted something easier. In this case, however, it meant Alexander’s Minecraft files were hidden and we couldn’t readily copy them. This is a “new feature” by Apple ostensibly provided to protect users from deleting or moving critical system files.
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The problem we ran into, however, is the LIBRARY folder in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is “hidden” by default. It showed the file path to Minecraft files on our Mac:
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To learn how to transfer the saved Minecraft files in the Mac OS X operating system, we turned (of course) to YouTube tutorials like this one. One of our challenges was figuring out how to transfer his saved Minecraft virtual worlds (which he’s spent literally hundreds of hours creating over the past six months) from the old hard drive to the new one. This month I’ve installed a new (and larger) hard drive on my laptop, so that’s necessitated re-installation of all our software programs as well as data migration for programs which save files in places other than my documents folder.
My Mac laptop is our only home computer with adequate RAM and processor speed to run the program, so he’s regularly competing with me these days for laptop screen time. My 14 year old son is really into the online world / game simulation Minecraft.
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