Apple admits it has a Snow Leopard bug.Apple officially recognized that its Snow Leopard snow leopard or ounce Endangered species ( Uncia uncia;) of nocturnal long-haired cat that inhabits the high mountains of Central Asia and India. It is about 6 ft (1.8 m) long, including the 3-ft (1-m) tail, stands about 2 ft (0. users may encounter a potentially serious bug, after it was first noticed in September. <img id="5647" class="imgLeft" src="http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/articles/full/2009/10/13/5647.jpg" alt="" width="398" />"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 released to CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. on Tuesday. The bug has been related to guest accounts and Snow Leopard upgrades. Unfortunately, using a guest account has the potential to destroy personal data, though Apple has acknowledged that it is aware of the problem and is working on a solution. "I accidentally clicked on my guest account and after I logged out, my documents folder was gone," one users said on the Snow Leopard forum. "Not only did Snow Leopard wipe out all of my documents, my email accounts, my address book, it broke the dynamic spell checker A separate program or word processing function that tests for correctly spelled words. It can test the spelling of a marked block, an entire document or group of documents. Advanced systems check for spelling as the user types and can correct common typos and misspellings on the fly. in Yahoo Messenger See Yahoo! Messenger. , caused random problems with Safari, InDesign, and others." The bug seems to afflict af·flict tr.v. af·flict·ed, af·flict·ing, af·flicts To inflict grievous physical or mental suffering on. [Middle English afflighten, from afflight, only Macs that have been updated to Snow Leopard from the previous operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , Leopard. The problem was first noted in September by MacFixIt as users who experienced the problem began posting about the issue in Apple's support forums. Later, MacFixit identified a way to avoid the problem: disable the guest account before updating, and re-enable it after updating. Or better yet, if you don't really need guest accounts, just leave them turned off. |
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