From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 12:56:31 PST
On Saturday, November 3, I wrote that:
>Shortly after [iTunes 2.0's] release, some Mac OS X users reported
>that all or most of the files on one or more volumes (other than the
>startup volume) had been erased following installation, apparently
>due to an installer script error.
Shortly thereafter, Glenn D. Tiffert replied:
>The revised 2.01 installer [fixing this problem] is already up @
>Apple's Itunes site.
Today, Greg Merritt also pointed out:
>Some folks have reported that rather than removing files from the
>non-startup volumes, the installer simply changed the permissions to
>unreadable; a recursive chmod cleaned things up. YMMV.
The iTunes 2.0 installer shell script error, and the minor but
critical change made to fix this error in the 2.0.1 installer script,
are identified in:
http://www.macintouch.com/itunes5.html#itunes2
This discussion thread includes a note from Andrew Welch on how to
recover from the second potentially errant behavior by the 2.0
installer script, involving incorrect removal of read permissions,
that Greg Merritt mentioned above.
Also included in this thread is Apple's official statement
suggesting the use of the 'unerase' functions of third-party disk
utilities to recover data from volumes whose files were erased by the
errant script.
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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