Steam App How To Make Sure

Steam App How To Make Sure

Heres how to make sure youve got a Steam client compatible with macOS Catalina.

Even if you have shortcuts to your favorite games, they all launch through that Mac app, and its possible that your copy of that is still a 32-bit app.

You clicked that Remember Me button years ago, but this is going to appear to Steam as if youre setting up a new computer.

As good as that is, as so much handier it is than going through the whole process of deleting them manually, dont let Hazel do it.

We want rid of a lot of Steam, but not the bit that includes your games.

But you need the ones to do with your installed games, so click Keep All.

In the Go to Folder dialog that appears, enter this: LibraryApplication Support and click Go.

That directory is where your games live, and keeping that folder preserves the installs.

Barring a virtual machine or something else drastic, those games wont work under Catalina.

But at least taking these steps now will save you having that awful moment when youve updated to Catalina, the Steam client wont load at all, and it appears as if youve lost all your Steam games.

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This is actually an application Change the Steam folder to Steam.app, agree to let the OS add the extension, and then double-click on the new app.

Itll create a NEW folder called Steam, but leave the Steam.app folder behind.

Drag this Steam.app folder to your Applications, replacing the old app.

Now you have a 64bit version of Steam in your Applications folder and didnt have to worry about deleting the wrong thing.

We tried this first Some of the libraries are 32-bit too, so youll ultimately run into problems.

If they want me to fix their problems, they can pay for my work.

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