BUG!! Deleting secondary user account deletes primary account's mail?

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On 08 Oct 2006, at 20:22 , Jim Witte wrote:
>   Has this EVER happened to anyone else?  If so, and if the  
> conditions which create it can be found, it is an extremely serious  
> bug..

Not to me, but I don't think I've ever chosen "delete Immediately"  
when deleting a user.

The only thing that I c n think of is if the user name you were  
deleting somehow had a space in its short name (possible?  I think  
so, probable?  Not likely) and somespecific removal script didn't  
check.  Although that seems pretty far off.  I would think that the  
Delete would simply unlink /Users/<user2>

>   Of to see if Data Rescue can find anything..  For that matter,  
> does HFS+ lazy-deletes files, and could a util just search for the  
> master catalog record for the top level folders, which presumably  
> would then point to (mostly) intact records of files contained in  
> them which could be undeleted the same way?  Mind you, I have *no*  
> idea how HFS+ handles things..

Not exactly, but a tool like File Data Rescue<1> MIGHT help if run  
quickly enough.

<1> I think that's the right name, been a long time since I ran it.


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