{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671","id":54392407,"number":3671,"title":"Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything on system owned by user.","user":{"login":"keyvin","id":4281988,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4281988?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin","html_url":"https://github.com/keyvin","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/keyvin/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"johnv-valve","id":3082894,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3082894?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve","html_url":"https://github.com/johnv-valve","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/johnv-valve/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"milestone":null,"comments":24,"created_at":"2015-01-14T23:28:17Z","updated_at":"2015-01-16T00:43:15Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I am not sure what happened. I moved the folder in the title to a drive mounted under /media/user/BLAH and symlinked /home/user/.local/steam to the new location.\r\n\r\nI launched steam. It did not launch, it offered to let me browse, and still could not find it when I pointed to the new location. Steam crashed. I restarted it. \r\n\r\nIt re-installed itself and everything looked great. Until I looked and saw that steam had apparently deleted everything owned by my user recursively from the root directory. Including my 3tb external drive I back everything up to that was mounted under /media. \r\n\r\nEverything important, for the most part, was in the cloud. It is a huge hassle, but it is not a disaster. If there is the chance that moving your steam folder can result in recursively deleting *everything* in the directory tree you should probably just throw up an error instead of trying to point to other stuff. Or you know, allow the user to pick an install directory initially like on windows. \r\n\r\nMy system is ubuntu 14.04, and the drive I moved it to was ntfs if its worth anything.  \r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/comments/70190508","html_url":"https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671#issuecomment-70190508","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671","id":70190508,"user":{"login":"dannyfallon","id":1104475,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1104475?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon","html_url":"https://github.com/dannyfallon","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dannyfallon/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-16T00:43:15Z","updated_at":"2015-01-16T00:43:15Z","body":"@mablae There is no code on this repo, there is nothing to send in a PR against"}}