Transfer Games from Mac to Steam

[heldp]

I bought SimAirport from the Mac App Store. I was unaware of Steam when I purchased it. I've been playing the game for a while and am too far into ti to start over.

Since Hindsight is 20/20, would I have been better off purchasing the game directly from Steam? Are there any advantages, say Cloud Storage of your game and the ability to play on more than one machine?

The reason I come to this is I'd like to be able to play on my laptop when I'm on a trip, but use my desktop with a much larger monitor when I'm home, so I'm trying to find a way to transfer the game file between computers.

Even if I had to purchase the game a second time, from steam (If there were enough benefits), can my game file be from my Mac version into the Steam version?

[★彡 Deluxe 彡★]

wtf

[Callahan420]

You should be able to use the save file but you might want to ask in the games forum to make sure.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/598330/discussions/

[heldp]

Well, it took me forever, but I finally figured it out. I ended up repurchasing it from Steam, which works a lot nicer now.

The hardest part was finding where the file for the App Store purchased copy was on my Mac, so I could copy it into the folder of the Steam version.

In case anyone else ever comes across this, My steps were:

1. Create a game with a known name
2. Enable the viewing of hidden files (Command-Shift-Period)

3. I used the "Find" (Command-F) function to find the location of this file. But in addition to searching for a file with "Name _ Matches", I had to add in a second criteria that isn't shown. Change the Criteria to "Other" and look for "System Files." I then added "System Files _ Are Included." This took me right to the file location.

4. I Copied the file to my desktop
4. Removed the App Store Version
5. Installed the Steam Version
6. Ran the Steam Version and created a new file with a different known name.
7. Using the steps in 3 above, I located where that file is and copied my original file into that folder.
8. Disabled the viewing of hidden items.

[wooтz]

wtf