Reports Say Snow Leopard Sometimes Attacks User Data

13th October, 2009 by adina
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Apple Mac OS never had any problem or malware – seemed to be a postulate until recently happened events proved the contrary, according to some reports.

The newest version of Mac OS, Snow Leopard 10.6, is randomly deleting user data as some users claimed.

Posts on the Apple support boards prove that data was automatically deleted when using the Guest account and then trying to log back into a regular one. The only way to fix this issue has been to restore from a recent backup, as users said. However, the discussions are all still marked “not answered”.

Speculation is that something makes Snow Leopard treat the regular account like a Guest account, from which by default all data is deleted upon logout.

It seems that the problem occurs when the Guest account was already enabled in Leopard before upgrading to Snow Leopard.

MacFixIt suggests disabling the Guest account, or at least disabling it and then re-enabling it in order to make it a native Snow Leopard account.

Apple didn’t yet acknowledge the existence of this bug but their feedback is highly expected.


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