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Major Snow Leopard Bug Said To Delete User Data

Posted by kdawson on from the clean-as-the-driven-snow dept.

inglishmayjer was one of several readers to send in the news of a major bug in Apple's new OS, 10.6 Snow Leopard, that can wipe out all user data for the administrator account. It is said to be triggered — not every time — by logging in to the Guest account and then back in to the admin account. Some users are reporting that all settings have been reset and most data is gone. The article links to a number of Apple forum threads up to a month old bemoaning the problem. MacFixIt suggests disabling login on the Guest account and, if you need that functionality, creating a non-administrative account named something like Visitor. (The Guest account is special in that its settings are wiped clean after logout.) CNet reports that Apple has acknowledged the bug and is working on a fix.

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  1. Accountability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Apple has acknowledged the bug and is working on a fix."

    That in itself exonerates them, in my view...Microsoft would happily deny the issue until they fixed it, then try to downplay it. At least Apple has owned up to it.

  2. Cockroaches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    .. are everywhere today trying to distract from the Danger episode!

  3. Expected behavior by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In the Mac community, guests are expected to clean up after fucking you in the ass.

  4. Mac OS stole naming convention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mac OS stole naming convention from Ubuntu.

    Gay Cheetah
    Gay Puma
    Gay Jaguar
    Gay Panther
    Gay Tiger
    Gay Leopard
    Gay Snow leopard

    Ok so maybe it's not that similar after all.

  5. Re:Hi, I'm a Mac! by fermion · · Score: 0, Troll
    Honestly, this bug is not surprising. if MS were marketing to a technical crowd, the file system would be what they attacked. The file system in Mac OS X does suck a lot. Copying to USB drives takes forever. Encrypted volumes, with filevault, are very fragile. Network access is often very slow. IDisk has a habit of just flaking out.

    To be fair, some of these are things that MS Windows does not do natively, so it is unclear how MS would leverage this error. In any case, since MS seems to market their product on cheapness, not quality, it isn't really an issue.

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  6. Re:Butbutbut... by Hucko · · Score: -1, Troll

    Relax. Microsoft is about to release another product; I'm pretty sure they'll do an update on exist software soon too!

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