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For preservation, file formats matter just as much as the storage medium.

Microsoft Outlook uses two file types for holding message, calendar, task and notes data: PST and OST files. PST files are created in the user's computer for non-Microsoft Exchange accounts, which ...

Windows/Linux: If you've downloaded or received a file with an extension you don't recognize (or with no extension at all), TrID can analyze it and tell you what programs can open it. We've talked ...

Windows is the most popular operating system and is the first preference for people because of its user-friendly nature. It also supports a large ecosystem of freeware. One such we will see today is ...

It’s time for another grab bag, selected from the many questions I get from readers. In this week’s column, I look at some questions about font size in iTunes (spoiler: your options are limited), ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

Storing and syncing files in the cloud makes your life easier and keeps your data safer. The top cloud storage services we've tested let you easily share and access files from anywhere and restore ...

Windows: It's not super hard to instruct Windows to use a certain app to open a type of file, but there's not really a place to manage all those associations at once. Unless you have Types. This app ...