Critical Mac flaw

OperaDad · 10-18-2009, 08:37 AM

Snow Leopard SNAFU: Bug Deletes All User Data

Posted 10/13/09 at 04:50:23 PM by Paul Lilly

Following the launch of Windows 7 next week, if Microsoft's upcoming OS can avoid deleting user data, it will have bragging rights over Apple's recently released Snow Leopard. That's because Snow Leopard users have been reporting lost data due to a bug in the OS. ...

Snow Leopard SNAFU: Bug Deletes All User Data | Maximum PC

sax · 10-18-2009, 08:48 AM

thanks opera dad. I will inform our users to download all there stuff on to their portable hard drives for starters

Lergnom · 10-19-2009, 10:32 AM

The bug, which is being fixed in a maintenance release already circulating in beta, is ONLY if you had a pre-existing guest account before installing Snow Leopard and then log in to that guest account and then it's not a 100% reproducible bug.

So if you don't have a guest account set up on your machine, then you don't have an issue and if you do have a guest account, don't log in to it. You can always delete the guest account and create a new one.