New to Mac? Here’s all the tools in the Mac Utilities folder
Learn what’s inside and where to find the Mac Utilities folder. If you’re new to Mac, you might just see a useful tool you didn’t know about!
Learn what’s inside and where to find the Mac Utilities folder. If you’re new to Mac, you might just see a useful tool you didn’t know about!
Sensitive files stored on your Mac? Add an extra layer of security to keep everything safe. Here’s how to encrypt and password protect a folder on Mac.
That must be the fastest fix from Apple we’ve ever seen.
Passwords of encrypted APFS volumes can be revealed in plain text in Disk Utility.
macOS’s Disk Utility makes erasing or formatting your external storage devices a cinch. With just a few clicks, you can reformat your disk, name it, choose a partition format, turn on encryption and more, here’s how.
This guide goes through how to safely remove partitions from a hard drive on a Mac using its built-in program, Disk Utility.
This guide goes through how to partition a hard drive on a Mac using its built-in program, Disk Utility. If you’ve ever needed to add an extra partition to an external hard drive, then look no further!
There is a way to leave specific volumes mounted whilst hiding them from both the desktop and the entirety of the Finder in one fell swoop. Here’s how.
Should you ever find yourself in the need to create blank disk images, OS X’s built-in Disk Utility is your friend. A disk image usually has a .dmg extension and appears, looks and behaves like any ordinary file, with one key exception: launching it prompts OS X to mount the volume on the desktop.
These mountable disk images can be useful in a number of situations. For example, you may want to create blank disk images for storage.
Furthermore, disk images can be used as a virtual disk for software distribution, to burn CDs or DVDs and so forth. In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn how to create blank disk images in Disk Utility, at any size, with optional password protection, formatting options and more.
Learn how to format a USB flash drive using the Disk Utility built into your macOS operating system. This process also works with external hard drives, internal solid state drives, and any other drive that doesn’t contain your operating system on it.
The built-in recovery partition on your Mac’s startup disk contains recovery tools, like Disk Utility. Recovery Mode makes it easy to repair your Mac’s disk in situations when the machine won’t boot properly and load the desktop in the first place. We show you how to repair disk error using Recovery Mode.
This tutorial shows you how to verify and fix disk permissions in macOS, which is typically a basic troubleshooting step to fix any software issues.