Steam Wipes Out User's File's when the Steam Folder is moved

[life0riley]

Has anyone had this happen? I just read this today. Can anyone validate this?
Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files

I don't use Steam but my daughter does on Windows.

[GreyGeek]

Yes. Not only that, on one occasion my older grandson wanted a Steam program that only runs on Windows. I ran my Win7 installation and bought it for him and set it up in the shared mode. When I logged back on in Linux my games were missing from my inventory. I had to individually re-add them.

[Snowhog]

Wow!! Who in their right mind would EVER put the System Destroyer command in a shell script!

Added:

I just edited the steam.sh file and commented the offending line and replaced it:

        # Scary!
        # Next line commented 2015-01-17 by me
        # rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*
        # Next line added 2015-01-17 by me
        rm -rf "$STEAMROOT"

Still, the use of the System Destroyer command in a script is just bad juju, and should never be used without absolute assurance checks in place to make 100% sure that the action will not be taken on the root ( / ) directory.

[vinnywright]

I dont know if it makes any difference but their is allso this in /usr/games ,,,

#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (C) 2013 Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>
# License: MIT
set -e

real=/usr/games/steam.real
[COLOR=#ff0000]config=$HOME/.steam[/COLOR]
ubuntu32=$config/ubuntu12_32
exe=$ubuntu32/steam

# launch steam / do an initial update when the exe does not already exist
test ! -d $config && rm -rf $config && mkdir -p $config || true
test ! -e $config/steam.sh && rm -rf $config/package $exe || true
test ! -d $ubuntu32 && rm -rf $ubuntu32 && mkdir -p $ubuntu32 || true
test ! -x $exe && rm -rf $exe && cp $real $exe && $ubuntu32/steam || true
$config/steam.sh $@

seams to make judicial use of the "rm -rf" as well

VINNY