How to open minecraft folder on mac

If your friend is running Lion or later, 10.7+, the Library folder is hidden.

Open "Terminal" (located at /Applications/Utilities) and execute this command (shows all hidden folders and files): defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

Then in "Terminal" use this command to close your find process: killall Finder

Restart Finder and all hidden folders should now be visible.

Now, in Finder, click on your User folder, then Library, Then Application Support. Your Minecraft folder is listed here.

To hide hidden files/folders in Finder execute this command in Terminal (then restart Finder): defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

Alternatively, you can execute this command from Terminal to open your "Application Support" folder in a Finder window: open ~/Library/Application\ Support/

If you or a loved one are a Minecraft user, you may be interested in tracking down game save files on a Mac or Windows PC.

Saved game files can be relevant if you’re looking to manually back them up, store them in a cloud service for use on multiple devices, sharing with others, amongst other purposes. With the amount of time many people invest into Minecraft, the saved game data is rather important. So, let’s dig into where these files are located on Mac and PC.

Minecraft Save Game Files Location on Mac OS

On all versions of MacOS and Mac OS X, you can find saved games at the following location:

~/Library/Application Support/minecraft

You can paste that file path in the Finder’s Go To Folder command (Command+Shift+G) or in Spotlight (command+spacebar) to jump to that destination quickly.

This can also be accessed from Finder by pulling down the Go menu, holding down Option, and selecting “Library”, then navigating to ‘Application Support’ and to ‘Minecraft’.

Minecraft Save Game File Location on Windows PC

For a Windows PC, you can find the location of Minecraft saved game files at the following location:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft

Replacing USERNAME with your user account.

You can also navigate to that directory manually by opening Windows Explorer to your user home directory, going to AppData, then to Roaming, and into .minecraft.

Whether on Mac or PC you can add or remove saved game files into these directories, and they’ll be available when you open Minecraft into single player mode.

Happy minecrafting!

If you want to shift Minecraft saves from computer-to-computer, or upload them to the Internet, you must first locate the world file on your computer. While this is pretty straightforward with Windows machines, it is a little more complicated when it comes to computers running macOS (or its predecessor, OSX). To even be able to see Minecraft world files in the Finder on a Mac, you have to un-hide the hidden files because, by default, macOS hides all the files that regular computer users probably won't use - including Minecraft world files. And this is what this tutorial is for: To show you exactly how to un-hide and locate Minecraft world files on your Mac.

• Method One
  • Step One: Start Minecraft
  • Step Two: Edit World
  • Step Three: Open World Folder
• Method Two
  • Step One: Open the Terminal
  • Step Two: Execute the “un-hide” Command
  • Step Three: Locate the Minecraft World Files
  • Step Four: Re-hide the Hidden Files (optional)

Method One

Step One: Start Minecraft

This first, easier method makes use of a feature built into the game to make finding your save files easier than usual. Firstly, you just need to start up the game as you usually would whenever you're getting ready to play.

Step Two: Edit World

Select one of your Minecraft worlds, but don't load into the game. Instead, you'll need to click on "Edit" here.

Step Three: Open World Folder

Here you should have the option to "Open World Folder", which will open up a directory inside your Minecraft installation directory, and navigating up one folder will let you go to the location where you have your saves.

Method Two

Step One: Open the Terminal

Hiding and un-hiding macOS's hidden files can only be accomplished via a terminal command. The terminal, if you weren't aware, is an application built into macOS that allows you to access the raw UNIX interface behind the operating system. So open up the terminal now (if you don't know where it's located on your Mac, just search up "terminal" in spotlight).

Step Two: Execute the “un-hide” Command

To un-hide all of the hidden files in the Finder, simply copy and paste the following code into the terminal and hit enter:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

For the changes to appear, however, you'll need to "reboot" the Finder. This could be accomplished by restarting your Mac. Still, a much easier option is to type another command into the terminal - one that restarts the Finder in only a few seconds (remember to press enter to execute the Command):

killall Finder

Step Three: Locate the Minecraft World Files

Now all you've got to do is locate the Minecraft world files in the Finder! So go to your Mac's home folder, open the now-visible library folder, go into 'Application Support,' then 'Minecraft,' and finally 'Saves' (if you're lost, check out the screenshot below).

You will see all of your Minecraft world files/save files in this folder. So to transfer the files from here to another computer simply duplicate the world file and place it in the very same folder on the other computer - although if the other computer is a Windows or Linux machine, the location will be different.

Step Four: Re-hide the Hidden Files (optional)

You don't have to do this if you don't want to, but since it may be annoying to have useless hidden files displayed all over the Finder, here's how to re-hide the hidden files: simply execute the same Command in the terminal as you did to SHOW the hidden files, except replace the "TRUE" statement at the end with a "FALSE" statement, like so:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

Then, of course, you'll need to reboot the Finder for the changes to take effect, by executing this command:

killall Finder

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