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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. bogus shell quoting rules by mj6798 · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is really a problem in how the Bourne shell handles variables. Lots of UNIX scripts fail when file names contain spaces, which is why most people don't use spaces in file names.

    The folks at Bell Labs seem to have realized that this was a mistake, which is why the "rc" shell (also available for Linux) now handles things differently: variable substitution does not result in re-tokenizing.