QuickBooks for Macs causing data loss
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 17, 2007 at 10:00am
If you use QuickBooks 2006 or 2007 for the Mac, don’t launch it, warns ZD Net. An apparent bug in the software update code causes the accounting software to throw a vague “you don’t have enough memory” dialog after attempting to download a 100k update while it simultaneously deletes your desktop folder.
The “update” at the root of this issue hasn’t been issued by Intuit, and the recommended course of action for all QuickBooks 2006 and 2007 users is to run the terminal command as detailed at the bottom of a post at the Tuaw web site. This will turn off all automatic updates and prevent whatever this is from installing on your system. The best course of action for QuickBooks for Mac users apparently is simply to not launch the software.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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