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Snow Leopard Bug Results in Data Loss Situation

Advanced version of Mac operating system as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard has brought many more advanced features for the users. This version is upgrade of Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. Other than this many users experiences bug in Mac OSX 10.6 version. This is related to guest account and due to this entire stored data gets deleted. It appears as manifest on the screen that has guest account option enabled under Leopard that is subsequently upgraded to the snow leopard. It easily gets logged in the account as guest and when user switches into their account then entire data from the affected system is missing and becomes unable to recover until backup is not available.

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.

In case this situation arises then restore the data by using latest time machine backup or with backup if available. And after this go in the accounts preferences and disable the log-in on the guest account.

To resolve Snow Leopard Bug problem user will have to disable the the guest account before upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard and then after upgrading re-enable the guest account, this will make a fresh guest account settings in Snow leopard doing this will eliminate the problem.

Due to Snow Leopard Bug problem data loss situation also arises and in order to get back the deleted and lost data user can try third party mac hard Drive data Recovery Software. This software has powerful algorithm that performs advanced scanning of Mac hard disk and then restores the deleted data in a safe and secure location. This software is a complete solution to recover entire deleted data in Mac OS X.