Snow Leopard SNAFU: Bug Deletes All User Data
Snow Leopard SNAFU: Bug Deletes All User Data
Posted 10/13/2009 at 1:50pm
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Following the launch of Windows 7 next week, if Microsoft's upcoming OS can avoid deleting user data, it will have bragging rights over Apple's recently released Snow Leopard. That's because Snow Leopard users have been reporting lost data due to a bug in the OS.
"We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases, and we are working on a fix," an Apple representative said in a prepared statement Monday.
According to the complaints, the problem crops up when a user logs into the Guest account, whether on purpose or by accident. Once the user logs out and then back into their regular one, users are greeted with a fully reset account where all the data has been eradicated, just as if they had created a new one.
Users initially reported that the data was unrecoverable, but Cnet published steps on how to restore the files from a Time Machine backup to a new, identical user profile, although the method can take over two hours to complete, Neowin.net reports.
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Nahalem
October 30, 2009 at 11:42am
My favorite part of this whole story is that this bug was reported to Apple back in SEPTEMBER! Yes, September, over a month ago. And only now did Apple release a statement that they were aware of the problem. That would be just like them... "Oh a serious flaw in our software that deletes all of a users data, hmm sounds like something something we can cover up for a while."
Nahalem
October 30, 2009 at 11:40am
My favorite part of this whole story is that this bug was reported to Apple back in SEPTEMBER! Yes, September, over a month ago. And only now did Apple release a statement that they were aware of the problem. That would be just like them... "Oh a serious flaw in our software that deletes all of a users data, hmm sounds like something something we can cover up for a while."
Nahalem
October 30, 2009 at 11:39am
My favorite part of this whole story is that this bug was reported to Apple back in SEPTEMBER! Yes, September, over a month ago. And only now did Apple release a statement that they were aware of the problem. That would be just like them... "Oh a serious flaw in our software that deletes all of a users data, hmm sounds like something something we can cover up for a while."
snapple00
October 13, 2009 at 7:28pm
I hate to say this you rabid Windows users, but when my mac deleted all my data, not only did Apple send me a coupon for a free Macbook pro, but my deleted data traversed the airwaves and mutated into a program that not only recovered my data, but finished all my work.
mattman059
October 13, 2009 at 6:05pm
i really wanted to write a comment that bashed mac and apple for what a major fail this is...but..damn. So much has already been said :P
Havok
October 13, 2009 at 5:22pm
When has Microsoft ever let an OS play a delete card on their end users? I can't remember.
'Apple, it just works........at deleting your bragging rights.'
CLICK.
arkweld
October 14, 2009 at 8:54am
Answer:
Last week. When Microsoft data centers wiped the information of every single user on the Sidekick network.
K0BALT
October 13, 2009 at 4:38pm
I love the featured related article that's linked from this page: "Apple Snow Leopard Sales Set New Record"
FAIL
nsk chaos
October 13, 2009 at 3:58pm
hahahhahahahahahahahha!!!! in yo faces mac noobers!!!! hahahahahahahahah
lol =) im normally not this mean but....i H8 MACS!!! soz.
mlee19
October 13, 2009 at 3:38pm
ROFL!!!!!!!APPLE..."SITUATION NORMAL ALL FUCKED UP" sounds like them.
cup
October 13, 2009 at 2:40pm
Now that is priceless.
The Mac-istas, though, will still probably find a way to spin it in their favor. :|
~Cup
*nearly every day of my life is some kind of computer hell*
DBsantos77
October 13, 2009 at 2:12pm
Sucks for them. *Runs regedit and deletes keys randomly.* XD
-Santos
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