I’ve written quite a bit about the not-quite-so-new Apple File System (APFS) format that Apple adopted for both iOS and—with macOS 10.13 High Sierra—for SSDs that are a Mac’s boot volume. While ...

Helios Software GmbH has released HELIOS Xtar for Mac OS X, a free utility that can be used to clone a Mac OS X system disk for backing up and restoring disks, files and folders — all with full HFS ...

When Apple transitioned the Mac to Intel CPUs, we lost the ability to run Classic/OS 9 software. Now, with Snow Leopard, we no longer have support for older PowerPC hardware. There’s one more handicap ...

In the excitement of a new file system on the Mac platform (and being a much less knowledgeable computing enthusiast than I was 10 or 20 years ago), I converted my Time Machine partition on external ...