I attended my first WWDC in 2006 to participate in Apple's launch of its DTrace port to the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard). Apple completed all but the fiddliest finishing touches without help ...

Sometimes you may have an old Mac lying around that you would like to retrieve files from. Thinking it's an easy task, you grab your nearest USB stick only to find the computer does not have any ...

Almost every year, Apple has made Spotlight a little better, and macOS Tahoe is its biggest and most impressive upgrade ever.

Mac OS 26 Tahoe redefines workflows with smarter tools, app updates, and a personalized interface. Upgrade your productivity.

When you put a new hard drive in your Mac—or connect an external one using FireWire or USB—you need to decide how to partition the drive and what file system to put on it. The easiest way to ...

Apple's newest file system, APFS, has modern advancements over the antiquated HFS+, but how does its pros and cons stack up in comparison to its venerable predecessor? Read on to find out.

In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing.

There are two versions, one for System 7 and the other for Mac OS 8, which laid the foundations for what would become Mac OS X, later renamed to OS X and then to macOS.

After joining Apple, he worked on adding file system journaling to HFS+ (which was turned on by default in Mac OS X 10.3), and then initiated the Spotlight project to bring BeFS-style, indexed ...

Mac OS X gets ZFS after all--but not from Apple Promising better data integrity, start-up Ten's Complement has released a new file system for Macs based on Oracle's ZFS.