If you’ve updated to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, be careful using the guest account until Apple releases a fix for a serious bug.
It’s possible that, should you switch from an administrator account to the default “Guest” account and back again, your Home folder might just get replaced with an empty directory.
As far back as September, a number of Snow Leopard users documented the problem on several forum threads. They said the bug involves the home directory — the Mac’s primary user folder — being replaced with an empty folder after users log in with a Guest account. That resulted in loss of documents, downloads, pictures, music and other types of files, the affected users claimed.
Apple says they’re working on a fix. In the meantime, either avoid using the Guest account, or make a different user account, called, say, “Visitor” instead.
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