Avoid using Steam on macOS?

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I see that you can make the windows version portable - can something like that be done on Mac so I don’t have to start steam every time I want to use it?

Thanks!

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I don’t know mac but I’d guess the same method might work. There is only a portable version of Aseprite as far as I know, and on Windows steam only tacks on a .dll file that lets Steam track your hours and that’s it. Have you tried simply copying the files out of the steam folder.

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This bugs me too except with the Itch version (I wish the standalone could do delta updates and this all be solved!).

Anyway, try grabbing the .app file and making a shortcut of it. Drag the shortcut to your Applications folder and then it should show up in Spotlight search. That’s how I got around it!

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Thanks!
I copied the folder to /Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Aseprite/ to /Applications/Aseprite/ and it seems to work. The only problem is that I get two hits when using Spotlight.

I can live with that - but honestly though - I’d rather have an internal updater.