Apple File System FAQ: How APFS works with older Macs, encryption, external drives, and other questions Mac 911 By Glenn Fleishman, Contributor, Macworld OCT 4, 2017 9:07 am PDT Image: Apple ...

The Mac has supported foreign file systems for decades with a plug-in architecture that allows macOS to mount, read, and in some cases write to and from storage volumes formatted for other computers.

When will ZFS become the next file system for the Mac platform? Most likely later than sooner if the examples of other file system transitions are taken into account.

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 ...

To get up and running, you just need a Mac with an internet connection. There are a handful of minimum requirements, but ...

Developers Apple File System (APFS) announced for 2017, scales ‘from Apple Watch to Mac Pro’ and focuses on encryption ...

At its WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed that its latest (not very creatively named) macOS system, High Sierra, will run Apple File System (APFS). Apple claims that High Sierra is ...

Since these files can vary depending on your usage, the amount of System Data on your Mac could range from just a few gigabytes to over 100 GB.

If you jump from Windows and Mac computers in your day-to-day routine, you might want an external hard drive that can do the same. While Windows computers won't read Apple's HFS+ file system and ...

Mac guy Rob Griffiths points out a few brand new command line utilities in Leopard, like the handy dot_clean command, which sweeps away Mac system files that start with a dot and annoy the hell ...