Snow Leopard 'Guest Account' bug deleting user files, terrorizing children?
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 12th 2009 11:05AM
posted Oct 12th 2009 11:05AM
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posted Oct 12th 2009 11:05AM
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@KIFF
Yeah man, because "You know, unless you actually enjoy watching your data vanish." isn't snarky *at all.*
Ever heard that you see what you want to see? It applies to you.
its funny that it was big news when an early windows 7 beta (!) ruined mp3s and now this final (!) os deletes _all_ your data and it aint a big deal...
Who says the MP3 thing _wasn't_a_big_deal_? But the point is, that was on BETA software and was patched as soon as they found out.
when does apple not fail to address the situation publicly? Brush-off is jobs' middle name. Always fail to address their "beloved" users, mahahahahaha...
What is it about major IT corporations deleting your stuff?
Ehm? Just that they're doing it!
That's what happens when you trust all your data to other people. This is why I keep everything I care about stored locally and backed up. I learned long ago that it is dangerous to store important files in OS folders.
I am so tempted to try that on one of my work machines that I'm testing Snow Leopard on... but I won't. (Not that I would lose that much data on it since it's a test machine). So tempting.... I mean I was one of those nuts during the Zune 30 leap year bug turned on their zune after reading what it did just to see if it was true.
You're my kind of insane!
This is part of Apples new virtual house party feature, you can have guests come along and destroy all your stuff without any of that bothersome socializing
Admittedly, that would be fun.
The data isn't lost, it just got sent to Apple for review. After Apple approves of the data on your machine, you will get it back.
Jesus.H. Christmastrees, I split my sides laughing.
Win.
Brilliant!!
Some consider me an Apple fanboy... but I must admit, that was funny.
Well thats good news they get it back, but the approval process is now backed up and wont be reviewed for months. Hope you didn't need any of those files for a while...
Instead of "give" you back your data, you will have to download it off iTunes for $0.79 - $1.29/MB depending on content type.
+2
The Apple approval process strikes again.
Next up: FCC will arrive to save the day.
And currently,
Based on the current volume of submissions, 95% of data reviews are being approved within 14 days.
Last updated: Oct 9, 2009
And here i taught ,macs were immune to stuff like this o_0
Glad to see you're still stuck on stupid.
You taught wrong, my friend.
I taught I taw a puttycat!
I just got a new Macbook Pro a couple of weeks ago. It seems that SL does have quite a few bugs to work out. For instance, I noticed that the firewall is not working correctly. I turned on stealth mode in the firewall settings, but when I surf the web I noticed that it is not operating in stealth mode. If I view my system info, under firewall, stealth mode says "no" even though the box is checked in system preferences. I do have guest accounts turned on, so perhaps it is time to turn that off for the time being.
C'mon guys..... It's not a bug. It's Apple fot God's sake!!!!
It's easter egg features.....
Hail King Jobs....!!!
Of course. Apple is infallible and plans everything. This is clearly one of their clever marketing schemes to sell more Time Capsules!
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature!
This is software.
There's a bug.
Bug will be corrected.
every apple fanboy today learns that OS X is a software like others, not the Holy Spirit's sacred gift to humankind.
Oh, if only that were true...
Evidence? Testimonials? Anything to substantiate the claim?
Read link? Click it? Find the info you want?
Clicked the link. Found "reports" (plural) linked to "report" (singular) and through my own investigation found only one other example...so yes, I guess technically there are "reports" (plural) but it's two of them that I've seen and could be some extremely rare problem, not an insane epidemic as the article makes it out to be.
Wanna help you but can't read your comment.
Think how much damage someone could do with a virus that does nothing but open the guest account O.o
lol xP rotflmao(i fell out of my chair when i read that)
PC:Hey Mac how r u today ?
Mac:Hi PC i have a major bug in my guest account and i lost all my data :(
PC: LOL well now u know that its better to have viruses then guest account bug's
Mac: :'(
you paid all that money for this? Macs they just work 0_o
Still stuck on stupid. Keep them coming, I'm compiling a greatest hits.
@billg
if only engadget would let me "thumbs up" your harassment of sergio!
Apple's Vista ??
The most overrated and buggy OS ever - it's Apple's Vista. Can't wait for the 22nd.
Hey ... I just said that right above you
I am just waiting to see
what happens if one upgrads the Vista to Win7 ...
I think everything will be deleated.....
But i dont know if one can do that if it takes 22 Hours....
So win7 will not have that problem anyway....
So dont say bad things about something which you dont use......
Hehehehe, I have no guests to use my MBP :)
Good for you. Here's a cookie.
so you admitted you have no friends?
Guys this is just a feature to make sure your gf doesn't catch you with porn. Thank you Apple for keeping my disgusting browsing habits safe my my relationship alive.
my my? I should be down voted for my inability to check my posts before a submission. You guys are slipping :p.
I was surprised that this didn't get uncovered sooner, because I was expecting something like this. Apple has had one of these major bugs with every major release since 10.3, except in the past it was a problem in the .0 release that got fixed with a very small (and VERY quickly released) .1 fix. 10.3.0 had the problem of instantly corrupting FireWire 800 drives whenever they were connected and resulted in probably the tiniest update package ever (10.3.1 was something like 650 KB); 10.4.0 had the issue of corrupting a user's entire profile if they had more than 2 GB of data and FileVault was enabled; and 10.5.0 had a bug of similar severity that I can't remember the moment. Sigh...