Unfortunately, this process doesn’t really lend itself to a cheat sheet. Create a symbolic link in ~/Library/Application Support/ called Steam that points to the folder from step 5.Īt this point the Steam client should load successfully, allowing login and installation of games.Move the newly-created folder ~/Library/Application Support/Steam to the new APFS volume from step 3.Install the Steam application and run it (it will update once, then fail to run anymore).
Note: Steps 1 and 2 might be optional, but I started “clean” to make sure that everything would work. If not, keep reading below for more details. If you know how to perform each of these steps, the summary should suffice. There are multiple community threads on the Steam forums complaining of these issues, as well, with varying reports of success.Īfter trying numerous failed suggestions, the following process worked for me. Fastfoward a year or so and between new security features of High Sierra and lack of developer support from Valve, the Steam client is broken again, at least for me. That was pre-High Sierra, and all that was needed back then was renaming some files from uppercase to lowercase due to an error message. One of my earlier posts described how to make the Steam client work on Mac OSX.
