Snow Leopard Bug – Cause for User Data Loss

After the availability of Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, people upgraded their Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Many of the users have reported that a Mac OSX Snow Leopard bug is present in Mac OSX 10.6 that is related to the guest accounts that results in a complete loss of user data.

The problem appears to manifest itself on machines which has the Guest account option enabled under leopard and were subsequently upgraded to Snow Leopard. Most of the users have reported that upon start up, they have been logged into the guest account. When user switches to its regular account, the affected user have been finding all of their user data missing and unrecoverable except they have not taken the backup before.

The Initial Reports says that,

This could be due to a bug in how guest account is managed since the data and settings are deleted from these accounts upon logout, but also could be from some corruption in the guest account. So Far it does not look a widespread problem.

If it happens then immediately restore using the latest time machine backup or with the full system backup, then go to the accounts system preferences and disable log-in on the guest account.

Suggestion

Before upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard, disable the guest account and after upgrade re-enable the guest account which will make fresh guest account settings under snow leopard and eliminate the problem.

Apple has acknowledged the issue and is working on the solution. The Apple representative said “We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases, and we are working on a fix”.

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