Unconfirmed Mac OS X Snow Leopard Bug Erases User Data Mac OS X Guest Account Logging to Delete Primary Accountโ€ s Data?

I guess that whoever said that Apple s Mac OS X is more stable, secure
and dependable than Microsoft s Windows platform was only partially
right. Although it s still unconfirmed by Apple at this point, it looks
like Cupertino s latest Mac OS X version, Snow Leopard has a terrifying
flaw. Various people have reported that logging in with the guest
account will make the OS delete all the personal data that s already
associated with the primary account.

It seems to me that losing personal data is quite popular these days.
After we ve seen T-Mobile and Microsoft trying to retrieve the lost data
of all SideKick users that resulted in an inglorious failure we now hear
that the competition isn t doing all that well either. Sure, the two
issues aren t exactly comparable at this point. Thousands of SideKick
owners have lost all their personal data so far, but only a few Apple
users lost their user data after having encountered the bug mentioned above.

How is it possible for this to happen? After all Apple is famous for its
more than stable and completely secure Mac OS X. Has Cupertino launched
version 10.6 aka Snow Leopard too fast? Does it need more work before we
can declare it a hit OS?

Snow Leopard has been available for almost two months now, and we have
already seen it fail a couple of times. Previous reports have shown that
Snow Leopard is not compatible with software like Norton AntiVirus or
Apple s Airport Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow and Apple has even
acknowledged this issue. Then Apple admitted that its Mac OS X is not as
safe as advertised. In fact there are quite a few viruses and malware
�infections � capable of taking it down. Of course, these are problems
that can be fixed through updates and we re less likely to make a big
fuss about them since we know that Apple is working on them.

But a bug that could potentially erase all your personal data from your
account is a lot more annoying, particularly because Apple hasn t
admitted it. Is everyone at Cupertino working on the matter?

In the mean time what you can do in order to avoid having your data
deleted is to disable your guest account for the time being. You should
also consider backing up all your vital information and after you have
done that you can backup your backups too. In case you data is already
lost then you should try to do some yelling in front of the Genius Bar!