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Playnite exe disappeared
DanDoes
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11-09-2020, 06:07 AM (This post was last modified: 11-09-2020, 06:12 AM by DanDoes.)
I hadn't launched in a while and then today I tried launching and got this error:

[EDIT: wow embedded images do not work at ALL here... https://pasteboard.co/JzwfLan.png ]

wtf... I go to the folder and, yup, the main exe is just gone...

Playnite.FullscreenApp.exe works find, but when I switch to desktop... poof. Nothing.



I have a hunch, so I check my antivirus in case it tried to gobble up the exe to "save" me from malicious code and...

[EDIT: https://pasteboard.co/JzwgGGH.png ]

well, it didn't eat the main exe, but it DID eat whatever CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe is, from Appdata\Local\Playnite



I noticed v8.6 was released a few days ago, and so I figure maybe that gobbled exe was something involved in the auto-update feature, and maybe it got eaten while that process was removing & replacing the main exe file?

Anyway I'm just gonna try reinstalling, but thought I should bring this up here in case it helps.
Crow
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11-09-2020, 07:15 AM
Nothing I can do about fact that 3rd party software is deleting Playnite's files because of some false positive malware detection.
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