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Apple's Snow Leopard Devouring Data

Logging onto guest accounts can cause massive data loss

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 14, 2009 2:57 AM CDT

(Newser) – A rare but extremely damaging bug is causing users of Apple's Snow Leopard operating system to lose huge amounts of data. Apple says it's working on a fix for the bug. The glitch wipes out personal data for users who have upgraded from Leopard to... Read full story »

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