Apple aware of Snow Leopard accounts bug that kills data, is working on a fix

Apple just made a statement about that nasty Snow Leopard Guest Account bug that deletes user data -- it's not much, but at least the people in charge are working on things.

We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases, and we are working on a fix.

Peachy -- now if Apple would just figure out how to fix all those broken Time Capsules holding the backups, we'd be all set.

[acniehaus03 Posted Oct 13th 2009 1:33AM]

pretty clever way to regain 6-7 gigs after an upgrade...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2009 2:06AM]

I have installed snow leopard on 28 iMacs at my college via upgrade means to keep all the Adobe CS4 Suites intact, I have also installed it on my own 3 Mac minis and MacBook all clean installs, no issues on any of the 28 iMacs or my own Macs, and my college uses the guest account as well as our own logins. I know since I help out in the iMac and eMac rooms, because the main I.T tech, just deal with windows lol.

i'll look today on a few more machines, but no one has reported it to the head of media. So I don't think its affecting our machines.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2009 2:54AM]

Ha ha I agree so much. It may happen in rare cases, but I've installed snow leopard on 28 iMacs at my college via upgrade means to keep all the Adobe CS4 Suites intact, I have also installed it on my own 3 Mac minis and MacBook all clean installs, no issues on any of the 28 iMacs or my own Macs, and my college uses the guest account as well as our own logins.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2009 4:15AM]

"You got important data that u wanna get rid off in an admin account ... there is an app for that ... GUEST ACCOUNT ... the brand new fully unlimited feature only by Apple !!"
Not used to free stuff with apple .. now that u got it what do you think ?

[jakem Posted Oct 13th 2009 4:16AM]

A service pack for a service pack? What a novel idea. Apple are always innovating.

[pokes Posted Oct 13th 2009 4:46AM]

haha "MS Wankers"

I really can't believe anyone gets this worked up over it. Its a computer for goodness sakes they generally have issues which get fixed and newer revisions come out.

Get over your blind hatred and camp mentality. Oh and name calling is so BIG when done on the internet.

I'm guessing no older than 17?

[thebobman Posted Oct 13th 2009 11:56AM]

Man, I'm sure M$ would be crucified if they released an OS that did this

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2009 12:30PM]

What about the bug where the entire OS crashes and restarts randomly while running Word and Excel? Anybody working on that?!

[mmoore141968 Posted Oct 13th 2009 12:43PM]

so, i guess it does not "just work" in this case....time to remove that commerical....lol