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Re:What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug by matheweis on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:58AM (#11104364)
I don't know the exact nature of the Adobe bug, but Steam had a similar problem recently too "Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything on system owned by user" https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

Honestly (and imnsho) the prevalence of that sort of thing makes it even less excusable for a large company like Adobe.

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Re:What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug by revelation on Monday February 15, 2016 @12:34PM (#11104642)
That is incredible.

> Line 468: rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

Without a check for $STEAMROOT validity. I'm not sure you couldn't sue Valve for the incredible recklessness. That is just beyond the pale.

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Re:What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug by cmurf on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:10PM (#11106768)
In general you can't. Most all software EULAs pretty much says you agree there is no warranty and no liability no matter what happens.
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Re:What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug by Sharlin on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @05:49AM (#11109034)
EULAs are not magic, at least in sane jurisdictions. A lot of stuff they contain is not legally binding.
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Re:What Happened: Adobe Creative Cloud Update Bug by itsthisjustin on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @03:12AM (#11108514)
Holy shit how have I never heard of this. That's an insane bug for Steam to let slip
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