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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. 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.