Viewing topic Steam might wipe out your home directory!

Title: Steam might wipe out your home directory!

sub 16 Jan 2015

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Under certain circumstances Steam can delete
all your user data in your home directory.

No, this is NOT a joke!

https://twitter.com/Donzanoid/status/556055040239370241
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

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Xpander 16 Jan 2015

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now im scared to open it up :D
i have symlinked library paths also :)

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tony1ab 16 Jan 2015

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http://www.neowin.net/news/moving-the-steam-folder-on-linux-is-causing-users-entire-file-systems-to-be-deleted

this. Please make a new on the site of this. Visitors should be aware, not only forum readers.

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sub 16 Jan 2015

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Quoting: tony1abhttp://www.neowin.net/news/moving-the-steam-folder-on-linux-is-causing-users-entire-file-systems-to-be-deleted

this. Please make a new on the site of this. Visitors should be aware, not only forum readers.

Yeah, I agree. I think this is an important news.
Well, it *could* be that many news sites are afraid to
write anything severely negative that might upset Valve.
And in this case it's even just a warning to the users.

At least /. (quite ironic, isn't it?) covers it. :D

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/01/16/1429201/steam-for-linux-bug-wipes-out-all-of-a-users-files

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ntfwc 17 Jan 2015

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Well, that does make me feel better about taking the time to make sure my games run on dedicated accounts. Bash scripts can be easy to mess up.

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