MxxCon Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 :angry: chrysler partnered with yahoo to create some free golf game to promote their golf tour and their cars. *DO NOT INSTALL THIS GAME!* if you have this game installed, DO NOT UNINSTALL IT! whatever moron created installer/uninstaller for this game should be fired! :angry: install path for the game was hard coded to ".//golf/" obviously this is invalid path which dumps installer into root dir of whatever drive it was run from. and obviously uninstraller was using same invalid path, which cuased it to start to delete all files from my d:\ :angry: when i realized what was happening i hit reset button, but it was too late... god dammed uninstaller deleted majority of files from my main 200gig drive! :angry: i spent last 3hours recovering whatever i could, but i lost many more files :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 That sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophism Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 you should send them an email threatning to sue because u lost important files that you "cannot get back" hell mabye they will give you some free **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Ouch. Thanks for the heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memNOC Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 holy crap! :o SUE THEM!!!!!! SCREW THAT! KIILLL THEMM!!!!!! :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiburon Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 you should send them an email threatning to sue because u lost important files that you "cannot get back"hell mabye they will give you some free **** sadly most disclaimers say they aren't responsible for any damage at all caused by their program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Maybe a free car, wishful thinking I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DELTA75329 Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Talk about "FEEL THE PAIN!"... :s Thanks for the heads up... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted February 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2004 yeah, a legal action seems possible, but it worth it? nevermind, sorry for your loss mxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOB BOT Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 hahaha sucks to be you man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 hahaha sucks to be you man dont laugh :no: what if it was you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Floyd Veteran Posted February 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2004 rofl kill them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Grey Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 geez sorry to hear about that lost data. I remember when I stupidly deleted half my 120gig drive; not fun. Hopefully those chrystler guys will reimburse you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOB BOT Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 dont laugh :no: what if it was you... Yeah i didnt mean to sound like a dick, but that would suck though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptiPlex Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Woah, don't so over every little thing. Too much suing, Eolas sues Microsoft, TGTSoft sues Stardock, when is it going to stop! I don't know how nasty e-mails would affect the situation :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesDog Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Just because somebody proclaims that they are "not responsible" doesnt mean that they arent. If a piece of software does damage to your pc or causes a loss of important data you do have a legitimate case. Any judge/jury will find for you if you have evidence that shows that they were at fault. If your main 200 gig drive was full of warezed movies/apps/games and pr0n I would just be ****ed and leave it at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted February 5, 2004 MVC Share Posted February 5, 2004 well if it happened to me ...I wouldn't really loose much because everything is backed up in 2 places... backup backup backup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuxi Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 That sucks. You should probably at least email them about it. Don't be too nice in the email either. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹ Posted February 5, 2004 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 5, 2004 Similar thing happened to me with Half-Life, I got my copy the day it came out and the first releases had an error in the installer/uninstaller that defaulted to the root of whatever directory it was installed to, and basically, say I installed to D:\Games (my general dir for installing games) it would delete every single file in that directory upon uninstall. This has still not been resolved by Valve, and there are occasions when I forget this and delete everything in my games dir. when uninstalling it. Valve basically said tough, we know about it but can't fix it, even with a patch, buy another copy of the game thats not a first release. Hardly a good attitude for a known problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted February 5, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2004 Don't be too nice in the email either. :( lol, old good mxxcon is not nice even when he is in a good mood :) dont take it as an insult mxx, I like your attitude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougkinzinger Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 I'd be way p|ssed too...but that's why I don't install anything unless it's from a reputable company. DaimlerChrysler is hardly reputable.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DELTA75329 Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 I'd be way p|ssed too...but that's why I don't install anything unless it's from a reputable company. DaimlerChrysler is hardly reputable.... Yea... they're not very good at making cars either. :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nazgul Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Yikes man, that sucks... hate to imagine what kind of mood this puts you into ;) Might wanna try some kind of undelete utility though, hopefully you can restore some of your files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdesmus Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 yeah, definitely write a strongly worded email to them. you can imply legal action without actually planning on going that route...they might take you a little more seriously that way. :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted February 5, 2004 Author Share Posted February 5, 2004 "reputable company" doesn't mean much here since it can happen to anyone whoever created installer/uninstaller for this game was braindead. i doubt i want the hassle of lawsuit, but i will definatly let them know what i think. and in general, the only time installer should be used if when there are some complex operations such modifying registry or registrying system components. when it's plain file copy installation, regular zip/rar/ace/archive is perfectly sufficient and is even better. smaller download, faster install and uninstall. you can imply legal action without actually planning on going that route... actually that's illigal to do. it's against the law to "misleadingly" threaten legal action to force another party to do something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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