News of the Snow Leopard bug surfaced after a number of users experienced data losses on their machines running the Leopard operating system. The problem was mainly affecting people who had guest accounts activated before they updates to the Snow Leopard. A number of users have reported loss of several of their valuable data like pictures and other documents. Earlier this year, there were complaints of data losses in Sidekick handsets whose operating system was designed by a subsidiary of Microsoft.

The bug seems to flag the main account as a guest account and wipe the account clean of data that the user would have had already in those folders. Users who hadn’t backed up any of their documents ended up losing their data. Replying on the problem, Apple has said that the problem occurs in rare cases and that they were working on a fix.