Any games you have installed for your default system may not start (missing executable error) or may not run well or even break something if you try to run them.

Running the commands in step 2 again and pausing and continuing the download fixed it.Īfter step 2 you're running the target machine as far as the local Steam client is concerned. In my test years ago this caused Payday 2 for Windows to become the PD2 Soundtrack for Mac. If the download is active while the Steam client is restarted it will switch to downloading for the default system, likely destroying some downloaded data. If you need to close the Steam client for any reason, try pausing the download and removing it from the download queue to attempt to prevent the issue in 3b.ģb.

type (where type is windows, macos, or linux)ģa. Go to the Console tab and type the following commands (and press Enter at the end of each):Ģa. With Steam fully closed, run it with the -console startup option, or click steam://open/console (Steam Browser Protocol shortcut).

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