Nasty bug hits Apple Snow Leopard users
Mikey 6 commentsAs far as software bugs go, this one is monumental. Neowin is reporting that a new bug in Apple's latest Operating System - Snow Leopard - will cause users to loose all their data.
Apparently this isn't just personal settings and preferences, it's actually all data including documents, photos, videos, music and more. The problem occurs when a user logs into the guest account and then back into a regular account, after which they will find said account has been fully wiped clean as if it were a brand new account.
"Users are reporting that the data is unrecoverable and cannot be found anywhere on the hard drive, and the only way to restore it is if the user has been performing backups on a separate hard-drive. Apparently the problem has been present since a few days after launch, as the forum post dates back to 12th September, but as of yet, Apple has been silent."
Way to keep your customers up to date there, Apple. If you're running Snow Leopard you'd be best to disable the guest account just in case you accidentally go in there. And if you haven't already done so - make backups to a separate drive.
Felix
Tuesday 13th October 2009 | 08:24 AMThat's not a bug, that's a feature!
Elvoski
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Damon A
Tuesday 13th October 2009 | 10:59 AMAs far as clusterfucks go that's pretty big. It's normal to release a new Os with bugs but this sort of bug is to big to be ignored. I've read a few stories on the other forums and one guy in particular lost over 250gb of documents and personal photos accumulated over several years. Why don't people make backups???
That's a huge one. Up there with Microsoft's f-up this week (at SideKick).
...in response to this comment by Rodney. I honestly don't know which one is worse. Both are right up there on the mega-f*uckup scale.
Kim OJ
Tuesday 13th October 2009 | 08:21 AMWoe! That's a pretty scary bug!