This is a crazy week. Not only are we finding ourselves flipping between the E3 2016 gaming convention and Apple’s own developer conference (WWDC), Apple has separately decided to surprise us all with ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=31442945#p31442945:3nir1k87 said: marcoskirsch[/url]":3nir1k87]This is a good overview. There's some big features ...

From the Beta release notes: "HDD-only Macs currently are not converted to APFS by default." This seems to imply, that other Macs, i.e. those with Fusion drives, are converted by default. Only reason ...

Although Apple started using the new APFS file system by default a couple of years ago in Mac OS 10.14 Mojave, the Time Machine backup system has continued to use the old HFS+ file system. The reason ...

When macOS Big Sur arrives this autumn Mac users will be able to back up using APFS – the file system that arrived in macOS 10.12 Sierra back in 2016. The transition to APFS from HFS+ has taken a few ...

How much space do duplicate files take up on your iPad? In theory, they use no extra storage. Thanks to the design of the Apple File System (APFS) used on iOS and macOS, duplicating a file doesn’t ...

across three of the four processor families spanned by the Macintosh line of computers since their introduction in 1984. You can see in the lead photo the success, where the Mac OS 8 search tool ...

Earlier today, John Siracusa released a Mac app called Hyperspace. The app scans any folder on your Mac, identifying duplicates. When the scan is finished, you can review the results and choose ...