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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: gss on October 13, 2009, 05:10:34 am

Title: Snow Leopard Bug
Post by: gss on October 13, 2009, 05:10:34 am

It seems that there is a nasty bug in Snow Leopard for users who had the guest account enabled in Leopard before upgrading.  Logging into such a guest account has caused people to lose all the data in their regular accounts.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/173502/upda...le_miss_it.html (http://www.pcworld.com/article/173502/update_snow_leopard_bug_is_a_doozy_how_did_apple_miss_it.html)

Title: Snow Leopard Bug
Post by: francois on October 13, 2009, 06:02:37 am

Quote from: gss

It seems that there is a nasty bug in Snow Leopard for users who had the guest account enabled in Leopard before upgrading.  Logging into such a guest account has caused people to lose all the data in their regular accounts.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/173502/upda...le_miss_it.html (http://www.pcworld.com/article/173502/update_snow_leopard_bug_is_a_doozy_how_did_apple_miss_it.html)

The bug is very serious but it doesn't affect every Snow Leopard powered Mac. I've tested many Macs and never had any problem with the guest account & lost user data. That said, I tell our users to disable guest account until this issue is fixed for good.

Title: Snow Leopard Bug
Post by: gerk on October 17, 2009, 07:13:45 pm

That guest account was trouble in 10.5 and it has carried up to 10.6.  I agree, disable it and don't ever look back!