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Snow Leopard Data Deletion Bug!

October 13, 2009 Tips & Advice No Comments

Over 100 cases across online discussions forums indicate that there is a critical issue with guest accounts that affect Apple’s newly released Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Apparently, when singing into a guest account, Snow Leopard treats the main account as if it were a guest account as well and wipes the entire user folder clean.

This should be the normal behaviour of only only guest accounts, which are temporary accounts that can be enabled to allow guests to sign onto a Mac computer. After the user signs out, the guest account data is deleted. However, this reported bug does this on non-guest accounts, which is a problem to those who enable guest accounts but expect to sign back on their main accounts and find their data intact.

We advise you to always make several backups of your data, both local and remote or offsite. You may want to check out the various backup solutions offered by zuuMedia here: http://www.zuumedia.com/zuumedia/backup/zuubackup-home.html

For the BBC article on this issue, click this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8304229.stm

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