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#1 01/15/15 20:01
- Gumby
- Member
- From: Seattle, WA, USA
- Registered: 08/30/07
Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything on system
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam- … ssues/3671
Guess someone didn't learn from Myth II. 
Iritscen: 
Iritscen: it's amazing this program even works
Gumby: i know
Iritscen: and that statement applies to my code, not just yours
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#2 01/16/15 10:01
- Iritscen
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- From: NC, USA
- Registered: 10/22/07
Re: Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything on system
Oh jeez. I'm surprised none of them have mentioned Myth II yet, but one person is saying that Half-Life had the same problem. This is why, when I added an update feature to the AE Installer which would take instructions from a file on what old packages were to be deleted, I also wrote a dedicated function (StringIsLegalPathForDeletion) to make sure that a typo or hack could not turn the instructions into an "rm -rf /*" bomb for AE users. Here, someone just said "gee, this looks scary" and left it alone.
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