Major bug in Snow Leopard deletes all user data!

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by jelba, Oct 13, 2009.

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    Reports have been cropping up on the Apple Support forums that users have been losing all their data due to a nasty bug in Snow Leopard, Apple's latest Operating System. Many users are reporting that all settings are being reset and most data is gone, according to iTWire.

    The problem, can easily be reproduced when a user logs into the 'guest' account, either on purpose or by accident, and when they log back out of the account and back into their normal one, they find that their account has been fully reset with all data wiped and lost - the account is like a brand new one. The home directory still exists under "/Users/username" but is completely empty.

    "We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases, and we are working on a fix," an Apple representative said in a prepared statement on Monday."

    This is a nasty bug, I don't know how this issue wouldn't be picked up in beta/QA?
     
    jelba, Oct 13, 2009 IP
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    Thanks for the heads up.
     
    mjronline, Oct 13, 2009 IP
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    Solution: Don't do that.

    Magic fix, I know.
     
    Razorloq, Oct 13, 2009 IP