Steam on Linux bug can delete all user’s files - SlashGear

Steam on Linux bug can delete all user's files - SlashGear

Search Jan 16, 2015 No software bug is more egregious than one that can potentially wipe out users' precious files without warning or indication. Some Linux users are finding this out the hard way when they discovered that their Steam client was silently deleting files starting from the very root directory all the way into the deepest folders. While the system's files might remain intact because of how Linux security policies work, user data are left unprotected, making this serious flaw even more personal and frightening. The small bit of good news is that this bug doesn't happen randomly and would require you to actually be a semi power Linux user of some sort to trigger it. It only happens when you try to move the Steam directory, located at ~/.local/share/Steam by default, somewhere else, like on a more spacious storage device, and then try to symlink (like "create shortcut") it to the original location. This seems to trigger Steam's automatic integrity detection which, in turn,

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