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 ...

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 ...

Protecting your computer's data is essential to maintaining your physical and digital privacy. With the increasing amount of sensitive information stored on computer systems, you should take the ...

You are about to transfer some important files from an external drive to your Mac, and suddenly you get the message “Disk Not Ejected Properly” The transfer fails, and you have to start all over again ...