Terms like hard disk, drive, partition, and image are often confusing. Knowing the difference saves time and avoids errors ...

Pick the Right File System Format Your Mac is compatible with several file systems, including FAT32, exFAT, APFS, and HFS+. Picking the right one for your external drive depends on how you intend ...

By taking all devices to the same file system, I think we are in for an exciting change where iOS and OS X will have a more involved degree of interaction.

Testing out snapshots in Apple’s next-generation APFS file system We brave beta software and do some cautious testing—and it looks like it works.

Because of the way Apple’s APFS file system works on the Mac, Hyperspace’s deduplication of files doesn’t delete or move anything. How APFS does this is complicated and explained on the app’s website ...

Because of the way Apple’s APFS file system works on the Mac, Hyperspace’s deduplication of files doesn’t delete or move anything. How APFS does this is complicated and explained on the app’s website ...

But the journey came to an abrupt halt at macOS 10.13 High Sierra. The next release, 10.14 Mojave, requires the APFS file system (not to be confused with the now-deprecated AFP file system).

While most modern hard drives make use of the NTFS file system on Windows and APFS on macOS, both of which offer a wide array of features — when it comes to compatibility, FAT32 reigns supreme.