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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. I bequeath to you... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    a dual-boot to the head...(whap!)...OW!

    ok, this is a slight tangent I have to point out, but then again I'd just be NIT-picking.

    Give a man a fish, and if he makes a crack pipe out of it, well, you've got serious problems to deal with.

    Yes, I'm a tenacious, longwinded, esoteric SOB who needs therapy...why else do you think I'm posting here?

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  2. Make Apple read this... by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It will be punishment enough.

    (this will help some people to follow along, for I forgot (thank god) about some of these languages...maybe that is why 'code == speech'..heh what a connection"...anywho...)

    Ok time to make you C the error of your ways, before looking at the ++ side.

    We are not going to dole out useless pearls of wisdom because everyone should be aware by now software is not made on an assemblerly line...damn, that LISP is coming back, sorry.

    There is a certian Basic Motif that creates this Paradox that creates a Revelation: Programmers are human and machines execute mistakes with alarming speed.

    So, go FORTH and remember it will be a cold day in Cobol when you get on that FORTRAN and have to make Smalltalk or some Hypertalk over a cup of Java and hope and Cray you won't be NeXT.

    And if you have Access to a Window seat, you'll see that the Sun will rise again.

    MOOving forward, Apple, remember the old Adage that "IBM is sometimes and acronym for It's Better Manually or I've Been Misled".

    Yes, I'm making and ASP out of myself right now, but I had to Scheme a little bit to be this SASsy.

    All your XBase are belong to US!

    'Moose out (of his mind I'm sure some of you are saying).

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