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 most common use case is to install ...

Partitioning your hard drive makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...

Starting a decade ago, Apple built the Recovery partition into macOS installations. It’s an operating system in itself—Apple started calling it recoveryOS earlier in 2021. If something goes awry with ...

Creating folders is a great way to organize all the files on your Mac and keep things tidy, especially if you just updated your Mac. But after a while, a stockpile of folders is no better than a ...

Clutter can sneak up on you — one screenshot here, an app icon there — and one day you wake up to your Mac desktop looking like a digital junkyard. And this chaos is the little leak that can sink a ...