The Application Steam is not Open Anymore - Steam on Mac

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Arc3us Oct 16, 2014 @ 6:41pm

Whenever I click on the Steam icon, a finder window comes up, saying "The Application Steam is Not Open Anymore." I am running OS X Yosemite. Mid-2012 13 inch.

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dietervdw Nov 6, 2014 @ 2:45pm

Same here ...
Uninstall and reinstall does not work. Did you fix this?

Arc3us Nov 7, 2014 @ 6:48pm

Yes, I got it to work by redownloading stream without uninstalling the original. I called it steam 2. Now, I just try Steam and if it dosen't work, I open Steam 2, and vice versa.

Hope this helps! Good luck

Camille Nov 7, 2014 @ 7:01pm

My steam also uninstalled itself. I sent a report ticket aleady. I am running Yosemite/25 inch. I have just finsihed reinstalling and no games yet so I cant test how 'Steam 2' works. I am so mad OTL

Jumpin Jellybeans Nov 25, 2014 @ 12:35pm

Just had the same problem... I restarted my machine and it was fixed

Running Yosemite on a macbook pro 2011 13"

Türme Dec 1, 2014 @ 5:46pm

same problem.
Running Yosemite on a macbook pro 2013 13"

Just Chilling Dec 28, 2014 @ 9:41am

Had the same problem, simply restarting my Macbook solved the issue.

Running Yosemite on Macbook Pro 2012 13"

pasta Jan 19, 2015 @ 9:38am

Go to activity monitor, while it is open, find the steamgameoverlay . It should be non-responsive. In that case force quit it and reopen steam. Hope this helps!

Pepka Mar 10, 2015 @ 8:21am

In Terminal:

ps aux | grep gameoverlayui

it will give you something like

username 1019 1.1 0.0 812552 2460 ?? S Mon07AM 14:47.92 /Applications/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/gameoverlayui -pid 1017 -manuallyclearframes 0

second number (1019) is a process ID, so just

sudo kill -9 1019

Worked for me.

big cheese Mar 25, 2015 @ 12:31am

under the memory tab in the activity monitor you should see something in red that says "gameoverlay" or something similar, double click then click the button that says quit

bacon Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:35am

Originally posted by The Spanish Inquisition:
Go to activity monitor, while it is open, find the steamgameoverlay . It should be non-responsive. In that case force quit it and reopen steam. Hope this helps!

This works! :D

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AntonMarkovitch May 6, 2015 @ 12:50pm

Same problem, restarted my Mac 2012 13in works fine.

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Vyvoz May 7, 2015 @ 8:38am

Hmmmm

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Arc3us May 9, 2015 @ 1:19pm

Solution: Find Steam in your applications folder in Finder. Right click, click make copy or duplicate. When this is done (takes about 5 seconds to a minute), open the copy (Probably will be named something like "Steam 2," or "Steam Copy.") This copy should work fine. If it happens again with the copy, make another one (copy of the copy). I've had to make 4 so far... Hope it works for you!

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