• Mac Steam content in the Documents folder? Not for long.
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i bet 1 of the complaints was from the "steam sucks" fag
Solution: drop mac support
God people shut up about macs, it's good they have games now, and it is good for steam and valve as a company. Quit whining because now more people use steam, it doesn't even affect you.
[QUOTE=cccritical;22088656]Solution: drop mac support[/QUOTE] shut up.
Honestly this is a rather stupid complaint.
I didn't this do be an issue.
Guys I've found a perfectly ignorable folder in a place where I probably have tonnes of other folders I haven't touched in years, what do I DO!?
[QUOTE=Kamern;22088937]Guys I've found a perfectly ignorable folder in a place where I probably have tonnes of other folders I haven't touched in years, what do I DO!?[/QUOTE] apparently you're supposed to complain...
[QUOTE=Makol;22088719]shut up.[/QUOTE] I have respect for you for making that installing steam on mac video as a reply to that one macfag but if people can't handle a nice thing being installed in my documents folder they can't have nice things
[QUOTE=cccritical;22089012]I have respect for you for making that installing steam on mac video as a reply to that one macfag but if people can't handle a nice thing being installed in my documents folder they can't have nice things[/QUOTE] thank you.
[quote=kamern;22088937]guys i've found a perfectly ignorable folder in a place where i probably have tonnes of other folders i haven't touched in years, what do i do!?[/quote] but its terrible!!!!! My eyes burn from seeing it, remove it!!!!!!
[QUOTE=goon165;22088792]Honestly this is a rather stupid complaint.[/QUOTE] Not really. It's like putting the Steam folder in Documents in Windows instead of Program Files. Everyone would be very unhappy if Valve did that wouldn't they?
I'd be pissed, seeing as how I have to use a second hard drive to hold all my Steam content.
This is a valid complaint imo. I like steam being tucked away personally.
[QUOTE=toxicpiano;22089318]Not really. It's like putting the Steam folder in Documents in Windows instead of Program Files. Everyone would be very unhappy if Valve did that wouldn't they?[/QUOTE] Do people actually use the My Documents folder? It just feels like a folder that is out of the way and a nuisance. I hate it when programs default to put stuff there.
[QUOTE=toxicpiano;22089318]Not really. It's like putting the Steam folder in Documents in Windows instead of Program Files. Everyone would be very unhappy if Valve did that wouldn't they?[/QUOTE] If I don't want to see a folder, I simply right click and hide it. I've only used other people's macs, so forgive my ignorance, but I'm guessing you can't hide folders on macs?
No, you can hide them. I forget how to though.
[QUOTE=Makol;22088854]I didn't this do be an issue.[/QUOTE] say what now
Can a Mac user explain why the content isn't stored in the Steam folder?
Because Steam takes up a fuckton of space, and uninstalling on a Mac isn't as easy as on Windows, they put all the game content in an easily seen folder so that if the person wants to uninstall Steam, they can just delete the folder. That is, until they figure out a way for Steam to detect it's being sent to the Trash (which is how you uninstall a program) so that Steam can delete all its content during the uninstall.
-snip- [editline]07:50PM[/editline] um... wtf?
[QUOTE=Chris122990;22094215]Because Steam takes up a fuckton of space, and uninstalling on a Mac isn't as easy as on Windows, they put all the game content in an easily seen folder so that if the person wants to uninstall Steam, they can just delete the folder. That is, until they figure out a way for Steam to detect it's being sent to the Trash (which is how you uninstall a program) so that Steam can delete all its content during the uninstall.[/QUOTE] Wait, what? Instead of an uninstall button you have to delete everything seperately? What happened to 'do everything autonomously on a Mac?'
Is it so hard to manually delete the game content after uninstalling Steam?
[QUOTE=TheGuru;22094786]Is it so hard to manually delete the game content after uninstalling Steam?[/QUOTE] Is it so hard to understand that uninstalling steam is something you should never do?
[QUOTE=luck_or_loss;22096640]Is it so hard to understand that uninstalling steam is something you should never do?[/QUOTE] why?
I thought you have to drag everything to the trash bin to uninstall crap on a mac... or so I've seen from videos and posts. Though I don't see why people have to whine about it being in one location. It's not that hard to deselect a folder to backup
[QUOTE=TheGuru;22094786]Is it so hard to manually delete the game content after uninstalling Steam?[/QUOTE] NO! But people wouldn't search deep in their hard-disk after they uninstalled the Steam application. With the rest of the files being in their documents folder, it's obvious.
Do macs seriously not support uninstallers that remove more than just the core program files?
So much for being the most advanced OS, eh Apple?
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