Steam working fine now. I didn't do anything, just waited a couple of days and tried again. Seems to have been congestion on Steam servers.
I did this:
In <user>/Library/Application Support location called 'Steam' , i deleted "userdata" and registry.vdf
Now steam will connect without problems, but you have to redownload your games. You better try it first with only deleting registry.vdf
"Once steam is installed, go into Finder, then click on your User on the sidebar, then go into Library, then into Application Support, then delete the folder called 'Steam'. Make sure to empty the trash!
if you have peer guardian installed you must disable it by doing this...
Start peer guardian , control click on the icon in the dock. Choose disable filters. Quit peer guardian. Try steam again !
Now you still need to make a new empty folder called steam in your application support folder which is inside your library folder which is inside your account name !
Go to finder then double click on your account name ( which has a little house next to it in the sidebar of finder ) , double click on library , double click on application support. Now control click or right click and choose new folder , finally rename the new folder to steam.
The full path is yourusername/library/application support/steam.
Enjoy !
Hackdabox!
So after some manic hunting around it seems the fix is to completely uninstall PeerGuardian for OSX. I had to re-download the PeerGuardian installer dmg to get the uninstaller. I ran that twice (to be sure) and then re-launched the Steam app. Immediately could log in without issues...
Hope this helps...
I remember this happening to me years ago on windows too. PG must block Steam servers. Makes sense...
i love you! (no homo)
but this fixed the steam issue AND also my mail , don't know why it suddenly started acting up though =/
also, bump, but useful info needs to be bumped
Greetz Apple-Guy
Having this same problem (just installed steam on a new air today). Not as talented as some of you with the mac, so i'm having trouble finding a solution. I see no steam folder or library folder, only the steam application. any help would be appreciated.
also if i go to users/myname ... there is no library folder at all.
I should also add that it tried uninstalling and reinstalling and that did nothing. Not sure what to do now.
Thanks for any suggestions.
First of all, hello all, and I'm glad to be able to post a solution that I found to this error.
Ok, so here's what I did:
1. I went into my router and forwarded all the incoming and outgoing ports to see if the problem was with my port forwarding, or the ISP. I was able to connect after forwarding all my ports.
2. I went into terminal and used this command: lsof -i | grep LISTEN , to see what processes were listening to which ports.
3. I found steam listening to port 57343, so I went into my router again and disabled the forwarding of all ports, and only left port 57343 open.
4. logged out of steam and shut it down, opened it back up again and it now works perfectly.
I am writing the instructions as well, because other people's machines might be using other ports, or the port might change from day to day, so you might need to change it if it does.
P.S. I hope that people know how to forward ports, and that you might need to forward the Steam specific ports (3478, 27000-27050) to be able to download games.