Quickbooks 2006 and my desktop

This is happening to many, many, many people. Read the thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6117480
and you can find there a workaround for after you restore your desktop files. (Hopefully you have a backup and/or Time Machine). This is NOT your setup but is a problem that Intuit must fix.

I thought if mac users have a forum so should QB users. Check this thread out.

http://www.quickbooksgroup.com/webx/forums/mac/1907

This is getting interesting. Either there is a fix or we are screwed...

also there is a more in depth thread called Desktop GONE!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1294040 get in on these.

First you must find out if Quickbooks 2006 is compatible with Leopard. i would email them.
Second, I suggest you use TM to revert to the time just before you installed QB2006 and wait for an answer from Intuit or from someone else who is using it.

Gofigger,
Great minds think alike! At approx the same time today I opened Quickbooks after not using it. It updated and then "WHAM" my desktop and all the files I had been saving were gone. Tried repairing permissions and tried using Main Menu freeware but nothing. I have to believe that it is QB that is the problem now that I read your post. Hopefully my info is still somewhere on my puter. Don't have TM hooked up yet and my previous backup is about a month old. My disk space is the same so maybe everything is still here...

Dear QuickBooks Pro for Mac users,

We apologize for any problems that may have occurred related to today's QuickBooks Pro for Mac 2006 and 2007 product update activity. As you may know, we resolved the update issue this morning and understand some of you have been affected. We have launched the following site to share information and are committed to working with any customers affected on a one-on-one basis. As a reminder, if you think you may have been affected we request that you share your contact info with us so we can assist you right away.

http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/Search.aspx?kbID=1009249&sg=SG_Quic kBooksProforMac2007&mod=12-17-2007+9:34:42

Sincerely,
Ian Vacin
Offering Leader of Intuit's Mac Financial Software

everyone who this happened to:

if you don't have a backup and your information is extremely important. STOP USING THAT COMPUTER, get it to a digital forensics outfit and they CAN bring back the data. A public "undelete" program can help you too, but this is not as reliable, and as long as your computer is on it may be over writing your data that otherwise could be saved.

I resolved the problem via a Retrospect backup.

Question: How did OSX (10.4.11) ALLOW a program to change a System file - ie, the Desktop directory.

I had set up my customer with a separate restricted login for QB and they did NOT have access to and administrator account or password.

I could not change this file in Terminal without doing a sudo -s
How did QuickBooks do this? How were they able to circumvent the OS?

+How did OSX (10.4.11) ALLOW a program to change a System file - ie, the Desktop directory.+

Not trying to justify anything ... but the desktop file is owned by whoever logs in, even if he is just regular user, and not an admin.

Terminal commands may have be written to protect you from changing the desktop, but there are underlying APIs that don't. And since the user owns his own desktop, it can be changed by programs he is running. All AFAIK. And this is RE Tiger, which is what you are talking about, though this is the Leopard forum.

It appears that someone wants to start a class action lawsuit. Please view the forums on Intuits website.

http://quickbooksgroup.com/webx/forums/mac/1907/34