Help: Finding morrowind.esm on Mac
Posted: 09 Feb 2018, 01:32
Hi guys, new here. I came down with the flu and I've needed something to do for the week since I can't leave my room, so I'm trying to get back into TES III GOTY. I am not very computer-savvy, but I have followed the instructions pretty closely and yet I can't get Installation Wizard to locate a downloaded .esm file on my Mac. Hoping someone can help me cause I've been trying to get this all day and I can't give up now.
I forced steam to download it via a folderless file named appmanifest_22320.acf. I started with this:
"AppState"
{
"AppID" "22320"
"Universe" "1"
"StateFlags" "1026"
}
I placed this into the appmanifest file. The file sits in steam apps with the other appmanifest files. I opened steam and it had an error that wouldn't finish the download. I went back and did some troubleshooting. I closed steam and deleted the appmanifest file. I then created a new one with the same name and placed this inside instead:
"AppState"
{
"appid" "22320"
"Universe" "1"
"name" "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind"
"StateFlags" "4"
"installdir" "Morrowind"
[other entries]
}
When I reopened Steam, TES III had apparently downloaded. It showed up in my Steam library with the white lettering that corresponds to downloaded games (as opposed to grey). Now, here is where I am having issues. The first thing is that I cannot find any folders or files corresponding to TES III anywhere in Finder. Supposedly I should be able to find the Morrowind.esm file in Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Data Files/ but nothing is showing up there (I can't even find the folder 'Data Files' within the 'common'). One thing I noticed, there is a folder in steam apps that is named 'downloading', and the only thing it contains is an empty folder labeled '22320' (well, and a .DS_Store too), which is the steam ID for Morrowind--I don't know if this is important or not, but I'm trying to provide all relevant information. The other issue is that, even if TES III did download to my computer correctly (and I can't tell if it has), when I run the installation wizard I can't locate any files corresponding to TES III. Frankly I can't even find a way to access my steam files in the installation wizard. It's as if when I start the installation Wizard, it opens up a different Finder than the one I was using before, and I can't find a way to access Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/ through the Installation Wizard.
So basically, I need to know if I've done something wrong when tricking steam to download Morrowind, as I can't find a .esm file anywhere. If I have downloaded it correctly, how do I find the file through the instillation wizard? Would it be easier for me to just start all over again and see if something goes right this time?
Sorry that's such a long post, but I've literally been working on this for the last 10 hours and I'm not sure what else to do. I was even going to try and download the program through wine but I'm not quite sure how that program works either. If anyone can help my out it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and if there is anymore information someone needs to help me solve the problem, please let me know.
I forced steam to download it via a folderless file named appmanifest_22320.acf. I started with this:
"AppState"
{
"AppID" "22320"
"Universe" "1"
"StateFlags" "1026"
}
I placed this into the appmanifest file. The file sits in steam apps with the other appmanifest files. I opened steam and it had an error that wouldn't finish the download. I went back and did some troubleshooting. I closed steam and deleted the appmanifest file. I then created a new one with the same name and placed this inside instead:
"AppState"
{
"appid" "22320"
"Universe" "1"
"name" "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind"
"StateFlags" "4"
"installdir" "Morrowind"
[other entries]
}
When I reopened Steam, TES III had apparently downloaded. It showed up in my Steam library with the white lettering that corresponds to downloaded games (as opposed to grey). Now, here is where I am having issues. The first thing is that I cannot find any folders or files corresponding to TES III anywhere in Finder. Supposedly I should be able to find the Morrowind.esm file in Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Data Files/ but nothing is showing up there (I can't even find the folder 'Data Files' within the 'common'). One thing I noticed, there is a folder in steam apps that is named 'downloading', and the only thing it contains is an empty folder labeled '22320' (well, and a .DS_Store too), which is the steam ID for Morrowind--I don't know if this is important or not, but I'm trying to provide all relevant information. The other issue is that, even if TES III did download to my computer correctly (and I can't tell if it has), when I run the installation wizard I can't locate any files corresponding to TES III. Frankly I can't even find a way to access my steam files in the installation wizard. It's as if when I start the installation Wizard, it opens up a different Finder than the one I was using before, and I can't find a way to access Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/ through the Installation Wizard.
So basically, I need to know if I've done something wrong when tricking steam to download Morrowind, as I can't find a .esm file anywhere. If I have downloaded it correctly, how do I find the file through the instillation wizard? Would it be easier for me to just start all over again and see if something goes right this time?
Sorry that's such a long post, but I've literally been working on this for the last 10 hours and I'm not sure what else to do. I was even going to try and download the program through wine but I'm not quite sure how that program works either. If anyone can help my out it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, and if there is anymore information someone needs to help me solve the problem, please let me know.