iTunes 2.0 Installer Deletes Hard Drives 511
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.
How the hell does this happen? (Score:4, Funny)
if(installDrive->hasEnoughSpace()){
return startInstall(instalDrive);
} else {
installDrive->formatRecklessly();
return startInstall(installDrive);
}
Hard-to-spot bug, actually.
New Apple Slogan (Score:4, Funny)
Copy Protection (Score:1, Funny)
[PATCH] Re:How the hell does this happen? (Score:2, Funny)
--- itunes-install.pseudo-orig Sun Nov 4 01:36:11 2001
+++ itunes-install.pseudo Sun Nov 4 01:36:19 2001
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
if(installDrive->hasEnoughSpace()){
- return startInstall(instalDrive);
+ return startInstall(installDrive);
} else {
installDrive->formatRecklessly();
return startInstall(installDrive);
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:[PATCH] Re:How the hell does this happen? (Score:3, Funny)
It's pseudocode. You can't patch pseudocode. You have to pseudopatch it, like this:
- return startInstall(instalDrive);
+ return startInstall(installDrive);
or like this:
Replace instalDrive with installDrive.
This might be very good. (Score:2, Funny)
So this installer comes in very handy because it deletes just all data and you don't have to decide whether to delete the picture of all these nice kitties or not.
So you have much more space on your harddisk and can download again much more nice pictures from the internet with cats.
My problem is however that i don't have an MAC and i hope they port it to linux soon so that i have again nice 30 megabytes of free harddisk space.
It is of course very sad that people with important data have lost all important data but you can't have much space and important data on your harddisk all the same time anyway.
Yet another way in which the Mac is superior to PC (Score:1, Funny)
What Apple did in a few lines of shell script, it takes Windows a complicated installer to do. I personally plan to switch to the Mac platform for its superior file deletion capabilities.
Gotta be said (Score:5, Funny)
Renumeration Remuneration (Score:2, Funny)
However, this does not address any Remuneration!
So old, it's a classic joke (Score:3, Funny)
% ls .o .o: No such file or directory
foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
% rm *
rm:
% ls
%
Same bug. Welcome to the world, Apple. :-)
Peace,
-McD
100BG! Ouch (Score:2, Funny)
....
....
Somewhere, in a little corner of the basement of a house, someone is installing their new iTunes...
{blip, squeek}.. Oh man, this is sooo cool!
{HD Grrrrinnd!!}
huh? What thee.. !!
NooooOOooooOOOOO!!!! My PORN!!!
Oh my God!
Later that day, at a Starbucks, we see a man, trembling as he sips is triple MochaBucka Latte-chino...
Brtney... GONE!
Pam....GONE!
Margolis....GONE!
That chick doing the horse...GONE!
My life is over....
Re:Relative severity vs. a MS flaw (Score:1, Funny)
The shell script not the problem... (Score:2, Funny)
After the installer formats your HD, you can record the high pitched scream you emit into an mp3 and then change the pitch to all bass.
So, now Apple just "equalized" itself with all other unicies.
To Apple I say, "I feel your pain" but you need to "strategize" some more.
Ow, crossing OS, platform and political lines... for shame! for shame!
(on a side note, modding me down as overrated because of my +2 bonus makes about as much sense as hating people for being intelligent...Oh, wait, that is what happens to "us" nerds all the time... I just answered my own question, never mind...so, being different is ok, as long as you are different like everyone else? Heh, makes sense...NOT!)
Yes I'm an esoteric, tenacious, longwinded SOB.
I'll never need therapy as long as I can post to slashdot.
Orbb: "keep talking, I'm reloading"
Re:How the hell does this happen? (Score:5, Funny)
Once Again Apple is Ahead of the Curve (Score:1, Funny)