Count to ten when a plane goes down

Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down by jzwinck on Monday July 21, 2014 @08:39PM (#8066878)

Ten years prior to that, Apple had a similar bug in one of its installer scripts on OS X. I have a hard time finding much about it online now, because it happened at a time when OS X and the Internet were a lot less popular than today, but what I recall is that an unexpectedly customized installation directory (say with spaces or one level closer to "/" than the default) would cause the installer to delete a whole lot of things.

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Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down by iopq on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @01:24AM (#8073023)

I once installed GGClient in C:/Program Files/ instead of any particular folder

so of course, I said "I'll just uninstall it from there and install it in the correct folder" and it proceeded to delete C:/Program Files/

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Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down by bentcorner on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @12:29AM (#8067391)

There's also this one from Pool of Radiance's 2001 release:

http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2001/1416.html

Uninstall wipes out your Windows directory.

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Re:Count to ten when a plane goes down by Paradigma11 on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @09:59AM (#8068988)

I still have nightmares from this buggy mess. To add insult to injury the shop didn't want to take the game back afterwards.

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