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iTunes 2.0 Installer Deletes Hard Drives

Posted by michael on from the making-room-for-more-mp3s-i-guess dept.

Cheviot writes: "It seems Apple's new iTunes 2 installer deletes the contents of users' hard drives if the drives have been partitioned. I personally lost more than 100gb of data. More information is available at Apples Discussions board. (registration required). Apple has pulled the installer, but for hundreds, if not thousands, the damage is already done." The iTunes download page has a nice warning about the problem. Ouch.

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  1. Re:How the hell does this happen? by Jace+of+Fuse! · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    No.

    Sorry.

    Extensive testing went out of style around the mid 90's.

    Oh -- and actually writting REALLY good code, that's been out of style since at LEAST the 80's.

    I blame colleges for letting so many graduates think that they are instantly coders.

    Real coders are born, not made.

    And anybody who got into computers for the money, and not the thrill of writing code -- well -- they're worse than lame. And they probably use AOL.

    --

    "Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"

    Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
  2. Re:Nature of the bug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How incompetent are Apple software engineers?
    They try for 10 years to implement true multitasking and fail.
    They give up and use someone else's code, but they don't take the time to properly learn the new stuff?
    That's pretty pathetic.

  3. Somebody is going to get fired... by active8or · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    We are talking Steve Jobs here, the man who pulled the Geforce 3 cards for a long time since NVidia spoke about the Cube, the man who throws computers after lazy workers...

    May Steve have mercy on the poor programmer who did this...

    Mvh:
    - Knut S.

  4. Re:Why is this even being posted? by sheldon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only good Apple is a dead Apple.

    Wouldn't you agree?

  5. The cure.. in 4 easy steps! by Ogerman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I personally lost more than 100gb of data

    Step 1: stand on your chair and scream "I am a total idiot for using a proprietary alternative operating system with no security"

    Step 2 (optional): Sell all your Mac hardware and build yourself a (much faster) PC with commodity components

    Step 3: Install Linux or FreeBSD

    Step 4 (also optional): Let someone who knows what they're doing set your root password.