Unity installer just deleted all the files & folders in its dir

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Using the 2017.3.0p2 installer, I was trying to create a new folder for unity, and it suddenly deleted the entire “Unity” folder that I was creating the install folder on. Along with all of the scripts and projects I had saved in it!
Luckly there was nothing of value there, but this is a major issue!
From now on I’ll be advised that the linux editor is dangerous.
There are no logs, so i don’t have anything to attach. :confused:

This was on Fedora 27 btw, gnome desktop.

Edit: Build is really buggy btw, I reported a bug because it “crashes” every time i close it.
And the font is really small at 1080p, but that seems to be known

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Haven’t been able to reproduce it, but my guess is it had something to do with the ‘remove directory’ process that happens if you dont use a folder you create. For whatever reason the program went crazy and remove the entire folder where the new folder was being created.

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I just had exactly the same bug with UnitySetup-2018.1.0b8 on Ubuntu 16.04 but it was clearly more annoying for me: I tried to install unity3D in /opt so I ran the installer with root privilege. Within the installer, I tried to create the folder /opt/unity3d and it immediately deleted the whole /opt folder. It means that /opt itself, and of course all programs I had installed into it, has been deleted. This is the worst bug I have ever seen in an installer in my whole life! It must been fixed ASAP with the highest priority.

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I hear your woes but

what were you thinking?

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I was thinking about installing something on /opt (where only root can write, which is normal) and didn’t expect an installer from Unity to contain malicious commands or huge bugs like deleting folders. I think these are not high expectations.

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I agree. This erodes the trust we’ve put in Unity.

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This just happened to me

So I grabbed the latest Unity for Linux installer from here:
Unity on Linux: Release Notes and Known Issues page-2

cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x UnitySetup-2018.1.0b8
./UnitySetup-2018.1.0b8

ok cool, it fired up an installer
got to the section regarding where to install
i selected an existing folder (Vault), selected ‘create new folder’ and created a new folder (Unity)
so the path should have been ~/Vault/Unity just as it was while selecting when it dropped back to the installer screen it showed (None) under the file path and I was unable to continue forward
more importantly UNITY DELETED MY ~/Vault FOLDER
let me repeat
UNITY DELETED MY ~/Vault folder along with everything in it…what in the F*** kind of S***** installer is this???

following are the exact commands typed (taken from .bash_history)

cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x UnitySetup-2018.1.0b8
./UnitySetup-2018.1.0b8
ls ~/Vault
ls

uhh…so wtf guys?

PS. It seems this has been known since last year?

which references Unity 2017.3.0p2 Linux Editor downloads
seriously?

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