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Re:Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everyth... by mtsmithhn on Friday January 16, 2015 @02:36AM (#8897652)
The sad sad part of all this is that Half-life 1 had a similar bug in their windows installer and would wipe your program files if not careful http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=479484
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Re:Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everyth... by DCoder on Friday January 16, 2015 @10:26AM (#8899420)
Myth II had a similar bug, too: http://minimaxir.com/2013/06/working-as-intended/
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Re:Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everyth... by gcp on Friday January 16, 2015 @05:32AM (#8898090)
One update to Eve Online had a broken script that removed "boot.ini" in some circumstances. Customers were not amused.
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