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QuickBooks users be cautious of recent update
Update: The "update" at the root of this issue HAS NOT been issued by Intuit (see the posts in this thread), the recommended course of action for all QuickBooks 2006 and 2007 users is to run the terminal command as detailed at the bottom of this post. This will turn off all automatic updates and prevent whatever this is from installing on your system. Furthermore, at this point in time, I tend to agree with Tangrams, the user who first reported this issue in both the Apple and Intuit forums, that the best course of action for QuickBooks for Mac users is to not launch the program at all until this mess is sorted out. At the risk of spreading unnecessary FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), It's not FUD, we want to caution Intuit's QuickBooks users of installing the most recent update, without proper back-ups - especially if you typically store lots of important files on the desktop. This information comes courtesy of reader Kelly, who also sent us a link to an Apple Support Thread about the issue. It appears that in the latest automatic QuickBooks update, the updater is coming up with a "not enough free space" message (regardless if enough free space actually exists - and keep in mind, this appears to be a 100K update), if the user then clicks "OK" - the result is that any documents, files or folders that were stored on the desktop are then deleted - and as of right now, no simple recovery method appears to exist.
