Steam folder keeps showing up on my MacAir

[63W]

For the past 2 years, a Steam folder keeps installing it self on my MacBook Air. I’ll delete it and it will show up again after about a month.
It shows up in Library folder.

I never installed games or Steam software on my MBA, yet it keeps showing up.
I can’t find anything on google what’s causing the Steam folder to install it self.

Anyone has a suggestion what could be causing this or a solution to prevent it?

 

[Taz Mangus]

For the past 2 years, a Steam folder keeps installing it self on my MacBook Air. I’ll delete it and it will show up again after about a month.
It shows up in Library folder.

I never installed games or Steam software on my MBA, yet it keeps showing up.
I can’t find anything on google what’s causing the Steam folder to install it self.

Anyone has a suggestion what could be causing this or a solution to prevent it?

Check the Console App to see if there are any entries related to Steam. It might give you some idea. Also, have a look in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents or in the /Library/LaunchAgents. There might be something in those folders which are executing when you boot or login.

 

[63W]

Check the Console App to see if there are any entries related to Steam. It might give you some idea. Also, have a look in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents or in the /Library/LaunchAgents. There might be something in those folders which are executing when you boot or login.

In Console App, I searched for Steam in; Crash Reports, Spin Reports, Log Reports, etc.... and there are no entries. Perhaps I should wait a month when the Steam folder shows up, and thats when there might be a log?


/Library/LaunchAgents folder ...is empty.

 

[Taz Mangus]

In Console App, I searched for Steam in; Crash Reports, Spin Reports, Log Reports, etc.... and there are no entries. Perhaps I should wait a month when the Steam folder shows up, and thats when there might be a log?


/Library/LaunchAgents folder ...is empty.

Anything in <user account>/Library/LaunchAgents folder?

So just to be clear the Steam folder is showing up in /Library or in <user account>/Library folder?

 

[KALLT]

Please do a full search on your system for “steam” using Find Any File or EasyFind or the following Terminal command and report the results.

find $HOME /Applications /Library /private -iname '*steam*' -prune 2>/dev/null

 

[63W]

Anything in <user account>/Library/LaunchAgents folder?

So just to be clear the Steam folder is showing up in /Library or in <user account>/Library folder?

1. <user account>/Library/LaunchAgents folder.... is empty.

2. I didn't wright it down. Im sorry , but I didn't take a screen shot.

 

[63W]

Please do a full search on your system for “steam” using Find Any File or EasyFind or the following Terminal command and report the results.

find $HOME /Applications /Library /private -iname '*steam*' -prune 2>/dev/null

Used Terminal and your command, this is what I got.

Last login: Wed May 27 17:45:57 on console
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.

user:~ user$ find $HOME /Applications /Library /private -iname '*steam*' -prune 2>/dev/null

user:~ user$


I replace my actual username with user.


...

 

[Taz Mangus]

When the folder shows up again, take note of the date and time that the folder was created. Then look in the console logs to see if there is any entires that correlate to the date and time.