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The fault was first noticed shortly after the OS's release

Users of the new Apple operating system Snow Leopard are experiencing massive data losses when logging into their machines under a guest account.

The problem appears to affect those who had a guest account enabled before upgrading to Snow Leopard.

Users have in some cases lost their entire main profile, including sites, pictures, videos and documents.

The problem, reported by more than 100 users on discussion forums, surfaced shortly after the OS's August release.

The issue follows closely on the heels of vast data losses by the Sidekick handset in the US, whose software was designed by Microsoft subsidiary Danger.

Unwelcome guest

Indications are that the Snow Leopard bug simply treats the principal account like a guest account - meaning that the account profile is wiped clean when logging out.

Users who first log into a guest account and then into their normal account have found it to be completely reset to factory default settings, with none of their personal data or files visible.

"I've been using Macs for decades...what the heck have I done here?," wrote user Wingrove on the Apple discussion forums on Monday.

"Repeated restarts and logins never get me back to me usual user acc(ount)."

Those who use backup services including the Mac's own Time Machine can restore their lost data, but it appears that for those who do not, the data is permanently lost.

Apple said in a statement that the problem "occurs only in extremely rare cases" and that it was working on a fix.

In the meantime, users should delete previous guest accounts and, where necessary, create new ones that are "native" to Snow Leopard.

If you work with Unix files and folders a lot, you’ve probably already noticed that you can’t see many of them in the Finder—the /usr, /bin, and /etc folders, amongst many others, don’t show up in the Finder.

If you want to, for instance, use a GUI editor such as Smultron or BBEdit to open a Unix file, you can’t do it via a double-click (or drag and drop) in the Finder, because those Unix files will be hidden from view. Although most editors, including BBEdit and Smultron, include an “Open Hidden” menu item for reaching these files, sometimes it’s more convenient to browse and open them from the Finder.

Using a simple Terminal command, you can work with all the files on your machine from the Finder. Open Terminal, type this command, and press Enter:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

To make the command take effect, you need to restart the Finder. One way to do this is to hold down the Option key, then click and hold on the Finder icon in the Dock. When the contextual menu appears, select Relaunch and the Finder will restart.

When it does, you’ll find that you can now see every single file and folder on your Mac:

THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE APPLIES TO:

• CuteFTP Mac Professional version 3.05 running on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

SYMPTOMS
When running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), the following error message is encountered when attempting to start CuteFTP Mac Professional: CuteFTP Mac quit unexpectedly.

CAUSE
In OS X 10.6, some of the system files needed to run CuteFTP are in new locations. When CuteFTP attempts to access those files, they are no longer where CuteFTP expects them to be.

WORKAROUND

Follow the steps shown below to create symbolic links to the new file locations. After the links are created, CuteFTP will be able to access the files and will run normally.

1. Start Terminal. (In Spotlight, type Terminal then in the results area, click Terminal – Utilities)

2. In the Terminal window, execute the following sudo commands, one at a time. After each command is typed, press ENTER to execute it. (Alternatively, copy and paste each sudo command separately.) Note: After executing the first sudo command, you may be prompted for your password.

sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClient.framework
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework/Versions/A/AppleShareClientCore /System/Library/Frameworks/AppleShareClientCore.framework/Versions/A/AppleShareClient
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/QuickLookUI.framework
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/QuickLook /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/QuickLookUI
sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/QuickLook /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Versions/A/QuickLookUI

3. After executing all commands, close Terminal and restart CuteFTP normally.

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