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Snow Leopard Guest Account Bug – Hype or Real ?
Posted by Scott in Apple, Rumours, Snow Leopard on October 12, 2009
A number of reports have been circulating today about reports of a significant flaw in Snow Leopard that can cause loss of ALL data in your home folder. According to articles at NeoWin.net and Engadget this bug is triggered when you login using the Guest account and leads to ALL data in the Home folder of the normal user being completely erased. Recovery from backup is required as the files are apparently not recoverable.
Clearly I am not about to test out the premise but from what I can determine this issue is rare. The Apple support forum has a thread where a small number of posters are reporting this issue but it does not appear to be wide spread. Oddly all affected users claim to have selected the Guest account “by accident” ! How do you do this ? The Guest account is disabled by default. How many Mac users actually enable the Guest account ? I have certainly never felt the need to do this, if someone wants to check something on my Mac I let them use the account that is logged in. Perhaps I am more trusting than most ?
Snow Leopard Install Update ( Success and Failure )
Posted by Scott in Apple, Snow Leopard on August 30, 2009
A brief update on Snow Leopard installs here at UKMac.net so far. After complaining about not receiving my pre-ordered Family Pack on Friday the postman arrived Saturday morning with a rather squished jiffy bag all the way from Ireland !
Due to other commitments this weekend I only had time to upgrade my MacBook on Saturday. This went fine, taking less than an hour from start to finish, so this afternoon the first of the to iMacs ( 20″ ) was upgraded and again no issues.
Snow Leopard Pre-Order Delivery Failure
Posted by Scott in Apple, Snow Leopard on August 29, 2009
Here in the UK the pre-order of Snow Leopard appears to have been a major FAIL. Many Mac users like myself pre-ordered Snow Leopard through the Apple Store with the expectation of the new Leopard landing on our door mats first thing on Friday morning, but the majority like myself waited in all day for nothing !
According to other @MyAppleStuff it appears that Spanish Mac users were similarly disappointed. Many countries on the other hand seemed to have more luck, Twitter was alive yesterday with reports of early deliveries from Hong Kong, Australia, Europe and US.
Order Your Copy Of Snow Leopard Now
Posted by Scott in Apple, Snow Leopard on August 24, 2009
Snow Leopard is now available to pre-order on Apples web site. UK Price is £25 for single licence or £39 for Family Pack ( up to 5 computers ). The site states that copies will ship before 28th August so with any luck if you order now you will receive your copy this weekend.
I suspect there are going to be a lot of Mac Users spending this weekend upgrading ! I know I will.
Snow Leopard System Disc Shipped In Error
Posted by Scott in Apple, Headline, Rumours, Snow Leopard on August 23, 2009
According to a number of reports including this one at Macrumors.com a customer in Japan received an unexpected surprise when he opened his newly purchased Mac Mini as the enclosed OS X Install DVD apparently was for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Whether this is a hoax or true is unclear but from the number of rumours spreading over the last week or so it is fairly clear that the launch date for Apples latest big cat is very close now.
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