Ok...so I feel kind of stupid. I bought POE 2 advance purchase with DLC Packs:
Captain's Footlocker
Pet Cosmo
Tircorn Hat
I have POE 2 installed on my iMac. All is good there.
I have the 3 DLC .pkg files downloaded onto my computer. When I install them, it brings up my POE II application directory. If I choose that, it creates another POE 2 folder inside that with another resources folder.
This gives me the impression that it's not installing in the primary game folder but instead creating a nested folder that the game won't see.
So I reinstalled it and this time