Hello to everyone. I just downloaded osu! (great game by the way) and i thought of sharing on installing osu and beatmaps the easy way or the most easy way at least for me. here it goes.
1 download osu! zip file from the downloads link.
2 extract the contents from the zip file and drop the osu! app on your desired destination. run (double click) osu! to start. osu should be running after patching etc. and will ask you to enter the user name and password. there it is osu! is installed.
Now to instal beatmaps I found it easier to just do the following.
download a beatmap form the beatmaps section. if downloaded using safari look for it on the downloads folder. once the file is located hold and drag it to the osu! icon (pink round osu!) this action will launch osu! and there you have it the new beatmap should be in the playlist. if not hit f5 key to refresh the playlist. note... make use to keep the original file extension osz. when dragging.
if you will still like to do it the explorer style follow the following.
right click on the osu! icon and choose show package contents click on it. next double click on the contents folder.
next double click resources folder next double click on the dosdevices folder. next double click on the c/ next osu! next and finally the songs folder.
hope it works as it did for me
And it is just horrible when you play a game like osu. 