MacFixIt reader Bill reports that performing a reformat of the iPod's hard drive in Apple's Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities) can sometimes work as a ...

Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The ...

A solution to this is to use Disk Utility to create a disk image, one that is password protected and encrypted, from a folder. Creating the Image Open up Disk Utility, which can be found in the ...

I’ve put together an essential foundation document for Mac users who may sometimes try to help support friends and family. Still having problems? Restart the Mac holding down Command-R to enter Disk ...

Q. Is there a utility for Apple computers that is like the defrag or chkdsk utilities on Windows? A. The tool Apple has for this is called Disk Utility and you can find it in the Utilities folder ...

OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency. Sometimes it's handy to make a full, complete, ...