Linux Is Safe Again, Valve Fixes Steam Bug That Could Delete All Files on System

Posted by thesilviu on Jan 20, 2015 2:06 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Valve has upgraded the Steam client and they fixed that terrible bug that would allow the application to actually delete every file that was owned by the user.

A user found out the hard way how Steam for Linux was capable of deleting all the files a user owned, after he moved the library from one place to another. The Steam client technically allows users to move their library, and in theory, it should be a simple enough process. Even more, the Linux apps are not bound by registry entries and all kinds of problems, so moving the folder and linking to it should be just fine.

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