If it was the other way around I bet you'd be complaining that you accidentally deleted some photos by hitting the delete key. Reaching over and hitting one ex

If it was the other way around I bet you'd be complaining that you accidentally deleted some photos by hitting the delete key. Reaching over and hitting one extra key should not cause you this many problems. After 20 years of using a Mac I would hope that you know that the Command key really is your best bet at doing something, the same way that the control key works on windows. I'd also hope that after 20 years you would have found the keyboard preference pane. Unhidding the library folder takes one line in terminal, you could even set up a launchd job to run it every day so that you're sure that you aren't missing it. If you spend that much time in the terminal you would have looked up how to change the problems you're having with some easy defaults commands.