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The dungeon-crawling Minecraft spin-off arrived on May 26 to fair-to-good reviews<\/a>, with many describing it as a family-friendly Diablo. But developer Mojang Studios<\/a> has released a bug report that reads: “If you have installed Minecraft Dungeons in a custom directory, there is a chance uninstalling the Minecraft Dungeons Launcher and\/or the game will remove the parent directory and everything in it.”<\/p>\n That means, of course, if you chose to install the game under c:\\Minecraft Dungeons and later decide to uninstall it using Windows’ Add\/Remove Programs tool, all data on the C: drive could be wiped.<\/p>\n The issue was brought to Mojang’s attention after a Twitter user wrote that uninstalling the launcher wiped out his entire games SSD.<\/p>\n Mojang said that the problem only affects versions of the game with the launcher, meaning the one in the Windows Store is safe. Tom’s Hardware<\/a> reports that a hotfix is now available, which can be applied by restarting the launcher.<\/p>\n Mojang warns that before uninstalling anything, users must ensure that the Minecraft Dungeons launcher uses Bootstrap 166 or higher. This can be checked by going to Settings > About > Bootstrap. If the number is lower than 166, just restart the launcher.<\/p>\n Marcio Oliveira, Tech Lead for the Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons Launcher, shed more light on the bug. “When a player selected a custom ‘Install Location’ in the Dungeons installation dialog, the Dungeons Launcher was taking that location and naively considering that only files written by the Dungeons Launcher would live there.”<\/p>\n “Thus, when uninstalling the Launcher, the uninstall logic would simply delete that ‘Install Location’ folder, to leave no traces of program files created by the Launcher on disk.”<\/p>\n “We are very sorry for the inconvenience this might have caused to players and will surely take this as a learning experience for improving our quality assurance process.”<\/p>\n Tags:<\/b> Rob Thubron<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Update now! Plenty of new games ship with bugs, but this one’s a lot more severe than the usual glitches: It could potentially wipe a drive of data. The problem is with Minecraft Dungeons, and it could erase your computer’s data when uninstalling the game. Thankfully, there’s a simple fix. The dungeon-crawling Minecraft spin-off arrived on … Continue reading Bug in Minecraft Dungeons could wipe your PC data<\/span><\/a> Continue Reading See Campaign: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/85407-bug-minecraft-dungeons-could-wipe-pc-data.html<\/a>
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