Three businesses that lost data during the update snafu have filed a lawsuit against Intuit and have asked a federal judge to grant the case class-action status. Intuit has not been able to come up with a recovery solution for QuickBooks for Mac 2006 users who have had files erased, but instead has offered to reimburse users who purchase a copy of Data Rescue II, a $99 data recovery program sold by Prosoft Engineering Inc.
The December update that triggered the data deletions also affected users of QuickBooks for Mac 2007, although the bug only created extraneous files in the Desktop folder on systems with that edition the files, Intuit said at the time, could be deleted.
