How to Open a Flashdrive on a Mac. USB flash drives are unquestionably one of the most convenient portable storage devices for transporting business files between unconnected computers.

This step by step guide with images covers how to find out what USB ports are on your Apple devices and other electronics.

If you need a USB drive that's widely compatible with different devices, you may want to format it to FAT32. Here's how to do so on Mac and PC.

How to Encrypt a USB Flash Drive in Disk Utility Before proceeding, make sure you've copied any data on the USB flash drive to a safe location, like your Mac's internal disk.

My latest How-To shows you how easy it is to reclaim your Mac’s old drive by installing it in a nice USB enclosure such as Akitio’s SK-3501U3 (shown here), which I chose because of its Mac ...

It's time to get to know the ports on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. Thunderbolt, Lightning, USB-C and the rest: what is each one called and what does it do?