If you are running Snow Leapord on your Mac right now, back up your data. Do it right now, at least get the backup started before you finish this post. That is of course, if you want to hold onto your data. There are numberous rumors swirling about Mac users running the latest Mac OSX build having a mysterious and horrible experience, involving a mysterious guest account and a empty hard drive. 9to5Mac sums it well:
“There’s been a series of complaints across the last month of incidents in which users start their Macs up as normal only to find they’ve logged in as ‘Guests’ on their machine – with all the files and data held on their Mac in their own user account seemingly deleted.”
My Vista box that I am typing this on is requesting a snickering comment about how Macs “just work.” Sadly, I cannot oblige it, the Mac is still “working,” just not in a very useful fashion. All snark aside, this is a very real issue for Mac users. Get your data saved, and we’ll bring you more as it comes in.
