In my first post on this subject, Btrfs basics, I discussed how to create a simple btrfs filesystem, or a complete btrfs Linux system. The information and examples in that post are going to be ...

As the record industry prepares hundreds of lawsuits targeting people suspected of illegally copying music over the Internet, a broad coalition of leading academics and civil libertarians is standing ...

Pretty much every GUI operating system ships with a utility to help you browse your directories, files, and documents. Windows, for example, has a decent File Explorer that can get the job done for ...

Confession: When I was a teenager, I asked for a four-drawer black file cabinet for my birthday. There’s just something alluring about putting order to your paper, as if your life will follow.

My new slogan for Windows 8: “It’s not all bad!” ($50K and it’s yours, Microsoft.) Misguided though the Metro interface may be, there are some nice under-the-hood improvements to be found in the OS.

Apple doesn't allow you to easily access the file system of your iPhone, but there are so many useful things you can do with it—like customize your app icons or back up all of your game saves, without ...

There’s no such thing as too many ways to get IT stuff done. If you only have one way, then you are at the mercy of that method becoming obsolete or not being interoperable with the latest standards.

File manager apps are among the most important apps on your device. With them, you can browse your files, find your downloads, manage your storage space, move things around, and more. Not everyone is ...

The O2 Cocoon file browser is rather strange. Multimedia files are sorted based on their type but they are grouped in a hardly intuitive manner. Images are stored separately, while video, sounds and ...

Q. When I bought a Windows 10 PC last year, I had all my Word files from Windows 7 transferred to the new computer. But I couldn't open those files using Word on Windows 10, and Word was unable to ...