Windows usually has its fair share of bugs, but this time around we are seeing a Snow Leopard bug that should never have got out of the bug testing room. We are seeing reports on the Apple forums of a bug that seems to completely erase all user data on your main account, as well as having all your settings reset. What makes it worse is that the data isn’t recoverable at all, including via un-deleting.
The issue seems to occur when you log into the “guest” account, log back out of the guest account and back into your main account; you’ll find all your data erased. It also seems to be prominent in those people who upgraded from Leopard. This bug can easily be reproduced (not that we suggest you do), and the only fix that seems to work at the moment is to completely disable your guest account.
Until Apple releases a quick bug-fix for this issue, we strongly recommend you disable your guest account to avoid data loss.
This is truly unbelievable. I bought into the Mac marketing just before school started this semester. I wanted something that was RELIABLE and robust. This is a real shame that I get something that has a bug that is worse on any Windows machine I have ever seen.
I updated Leopard to Snow Leopard and didn’t know about this. Thanks for posting it and I’ll have to disable my guest account.