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Nero 6 Users Beware!

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by acidosmosis, Jul 31, 2003.

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  1. acidosmosis TechSpot Chancellor

    For those of you who have jumped on to using Nero 6, beware. There is a bug in Nero 6 that could wipe out your hard drive.

    Nero 6 contains a 'bug' that could delete your entire harddrive. The bug is introduced with the Nero 6 Recode project. Bug might even not be the correct word for it, it seems more that Ahead forgot to limit the feature to empty the destination folder for temporarily files.

    If this destination directory is set to the root of a disc (e.g C : \) and if the question: "Destination folder is not empty, do you wish to clear it" is answered with yes, all files will be deleted.
    acidosmosis, Jul 31, 2003
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  2. ---agissi--- TechSpot Paladin

    Whoa! THAT WOULD SUCK. THANKS ACID (sorry for caps)

    Some one needs to put this on the Frontpage plz!
    ---agissi---, Jul 31, 2003
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  3. acidosmosis TechSpot Chancellor

    Yea, really, I saw this and I know that a lot of people on TS have upgraded their versions of Nero so I wanted to make sure they knew about this issue. Would definately not be cool if your hard drive got erased unexpectedly in any case.
    acidosmosis, Jul 31, 2003
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  4. poertner_1274 secroF laicepS topShceT

    Holy crap that would really piss me off. I was just getting ready to go take it off my computer once I saw the headline. I can deal with this problem, per say though. As long as I don't use it when I am not thinking and just hit "YES". Oh boy, I might remove it anyway, that would be totally scary. Or I guess I could just set it to another drive....Yeah I'll probably do that, but I still don't want to lose everything on that drive either.


    Man what a bunch of crap
    poertner_1274, Jul 31, 2003
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  5. BrownPaper Newcomer, in training

    i think if you leave the folder on the default temporary folder and not change it to the root folder (i.e. "C:\") then it should be okay. i read that the problem had to do with the program nero recode. just in case i do something dumb, i'll stay away from that.
    BrownPaper, Jul 31, 2003
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  6. XtR-X Newcomer, in training

    There should be a patch out for that soon.

    Though, good warning.
    XtR-X, Jul 31, 2003
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  7. Phantasm66 Newcomer, in training

    Well done, my young apprentice! ;)
    Phantasm66, Jul 31, 2003
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