Accessing persistant volumes in Docker Desktop for Mac

As I was getting some work done, I came across an edge case the other night where I needed to view the contents of a file in a Docker volume that was running on my Mac.

Unlike a Linux box, you can not navigate directly to /var/lib/docker/volumes.

On a Mac, You have to jump through a few steps outlined below:

• We will "Screen to" a background VM running on your Mac.
  • You will run:
    screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty

• It's going to return a blank screen, just hit enter a few times and you'll see:
  docker-desktop:~#
• Now just like on a Linux box, navigate to:
  /var/lib/docker/volumes/
• You can edit the files and folders like normal
• To exit ctrl-a and d

Just like how you would exit a normal screen session

Hopefully this helps! I know I will be revisiting this article the next time I need to do this!