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The Quick and Dirty: Some Snow Leopard users have reported losing their user data when logging into the Guest account on their system and then logging back into their own user accounts.

Who is affected: Apparently those who had a Guest account enabled in 10.5 and then upgraded their systems to 10.6 are potentially vulnerable.

How to avoid: Supposedly if you disable your Guest account and then reenable it, the bug gets ironed out as your system makes a new Guest account in 10.6. That said, it might be wise to simply turn off the Guest account and not use it until Apple releases a fix.

How to fix: If you’ve fallen victim, then you should look at the fix posted by Cnet.

Moral to the story: As I mentioned in a previous article, we early OS adopters are basically glorified beta testers. I’m always beating people over the head with the B word (backup) and early adopters especially have no excuses not to have their data well backed up.