If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

MacFixIt reader Bill reports that performing a reformat of the iPod's hard drive in Apple's Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities) can sometimes work as a ...

OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...

We previously reported a problem with OS X 10.2.8 (build 6R65) where running Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions on some Beige G3 computers and PowerBook G3 laptops would result in a blank/black ...

Practically everyone has files or folders they keep on their Mac that they don't want anyone else to access. AppleInsider explains how to keep these files secure by turning a folder into a protected ...

Plus in theory you can burn your virtual disk image to an actual disk and store it away off site somewhere. Archive a folder Open the Disk Utility app that came with your Mac. Choose File then New ...

Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

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There was a time when backing up a Mac meant using third-party software and DAT tapes. Hard drives were mega-expensive, slow and small capacity. Fortunately, those days are long gone with two-terabyte ...

Apple only sells OS X Mountain Lion as a digital download in the Mac App Store. The installer weighs in at a hefty 4.05GB, but the good news is that you can install your copy of Mountain Lion on all ...