You have to go into the control panel and turn on 'show hidden files/folders.' All steam files including most game data files are located on the G drive. Conclusions: How to Hide or Unhide Files and Folders on Mac. Of course, you can always use the Terminal to hide and unhide files and folders on your Mac, but the process seems to be long and uncomfortable. Moreover, you don’t have a list of all the hidden files, plus they aren’t located in one place.
Steam needs no introduction to any video game enthusiast. Created by Valve Corporation, Steam is a giant open gaming hub.
Steam is mostly known for its video game store that features thousands of titles from AAA to indie and offers lavish discounts. Its community features are overlooked, but nevertheless, it’s there if you’re interested. For gamers all over the globe, Steam has become a digital paradise. The unfortunate side of gaming on a Mac, besides the obvious, is its limited storage. Keeping your entire Steam library will cost space — a lot of space. So if you are looking to free up space on your Mac, deleting Steam, or at least some of the games, would be the first place to look. How to Uninstall Games from Mac Games library can take up tons of your MacBook storage.
Modern Triple-A games need tens of gigabytes and having multiple ones installed is a sure way to waste precious SSD space. If Mac is your only gaming device and you are not yet ready to remove Steam completely, delete video games you do not play from your Mac to save room. Open Steam. Switch to Library Installed.
Ctrl-click the game you want to remove. Click Delete Local Content (the game will stay in your library but will be removed from Mac storage) Permanently Remove Games from Library You can then continue to permanently remove a game from your Steam library:. Open Steam Library. Choose a game and click Support on the right. Click on I want to permanently remove this game from my account. Confirm you want remove the game from your account Note: This completely deletes the game from your Steam library!
Hide Games from Steam Library Generally, there is no need to permanently remove games from the library, as they cannot be recovered and don’t take up any space. Moreover, if you want to keep things tidy, simply hiding the game will do the trick. Open Steam Library. Ctrl-click the game you want to hide. Click Set category. Tick the Hide this game in my library box. Click OK How to Uninstall Steam from Mac Keeping Steam on your Mac can take up too much disk space (and too much of your time).
You know you need to clean up your drive and uninstall space-hogging apps when your OS starts struggling due to lack of free space. If Steam is one of those apps for you, here is how you can remove it. Quit Steam. Open Finder Applications.
Drag and drop Steam.app to Trash. In Finder hold Shift-Command-G to open Go to folder. Paste /Library/Application Support/ directory and find Steam folder.
Delete the content of the folder (except /steamapps if you want to reinstall Steam and keep downloaded games). Empty Trash This will remove the major components of the application and free up space. However to completely get rid of Steam you will also have to delete its additional files. In Finder hold Shift-Command-G to open Go to folder.
Check all of them following locations for steam or valve related files /Library/Caches/ /Library/Logs/ /Library/Preferences/ /Library/Cookies/ /Library/Saved Application State/ /Library/LaunchAgents/. Move all Steam-associated files to Trash Uninstall Steam Using MacFly Pro If you don’t want to be bothered with all the extra manual effort, grab MacFly Pro to quickly and completely uninstall Steam from your Mac.
Open MacFly Pro. Select Apps module and click Scan. Select Steam and tick the boxes next to other apps you want like to remove. Hit Uninstall Selected This concludes full uninstallation of Steam on Mac. Whether you want to delete some games, reinstall Steam, with or without losing downloaded games, or completely remove Steam from your Mac — this guide should have your questions answered. Using the MacFly Pro option is by far the fastest way of uninstalling Steam.
Once removed, you can also use MacFly Pro to further clean your Mac and free up even more space on your startup disk.
Updates January 26th 2018: Added shortcut method available on macOS Sierra keyboard. September 22nd 2016: Method of showing/hiding hidden files tested and working on macOS Sierra. December 22nd 2015: Method of showing/hiding hidden files tested and working on Mac OS X El Capitan.
It seems like every day I search Google for the command to show hidden files on Mac OS X, not to mention Googling for the command to then hide those hidden files a few minutes later. Today I decided to make a short and easy to remember alias to speed up the process. All I need do now is type showFiles and hideFiles whenever I need to show/hide OS X’s hidden files. Here’s how you can do it too. The Quickest Way to Show/Hide Hidden Files Since the release of macOS Sierra, when in Finder, it is now possible to use the shortcut: CMD + SHIFT +. Press once to show hidden files and again to hide them. If you’re using a version earlier than macOS Sierra, see to setup a toggle command via terminal.
Thanks to for making me aware of this new shortcut. Show/Hide Hidden Files the Long Way The long way to show hidden Mac OS X files is as follows:. Open Terminal found in Finder Applications Utilities. In Terminal, paste the following: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES. Press return. Hold the ‘Option/alt’ key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch. Relaunch Finder by right clicking the Finder Icon whilst holding the ‘Option/alt’ key This will show all hidden files.
To hide them again, follow the same steps but replace the Terminal command with: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO It’s not the longest set of instructions or the biggest command to commit to memory but if you’re doing this a lot, it’s worth spending a few minutes now to save yourself a lot more time in the future. Show/Hide Hidden Files using Terminal Aliases A Terminal alias is a name or shortcut for one or multiple commands. Using an easy to remember alias, we can turn the above four step process into just one. An alias can be made temporarily (just for the use of one terminal session) or permanently. Adding aliases to.bashprofile via Terminal Now when you want to show hidden files, all you need type in Terminal is showFiles, then hideFiles when you want to hide them. If you want to modify the behaviour or alias names, let’s take a closer look at the commands you just added: alias showFiles='defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app' alias tells Terminal we’re adding a new alias.
ShowFiles is the name of the alias. Change this to what you wish. We then give the alias two commands. The first being: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; This is the command to show hidden files and is ended with a semi-colon; so we can then use the second command: killall Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app This will relaunch the Finder (to replicate the step of holding the ‘Option/alt’ key then right clicking the Finder icon in the dock).
Conclusion With the aliases set up, all you need do in the future is type showFiles and hideFiles to show and hide Mac OS X’s hidden files respectively. Aliases can be used to speed up your interaction with the Terminal. Set up an alias for navigating to your most used directories, to commit to a GitHub repo and so on. Front-end Developer, author of, and graduate of Internet Technology.
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