For example, perhaps there's not a lot of value in encrypting core operating system and application executables - those are publicly available anyhow (that is, they're not secret/private), and by ...

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 ...

Consumers (read: probably you) don’t typically dig into their file system; they only get upset when they run out of space on their computer. That’s part of the reason Apple created its new, ...

Time Machine no longer lets you delete individual files from backup snapshots, though you can still delete an entire snapshot. That shouldn’t be a problem: in almost no case does it make sense to ...

[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 ...

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 ...

MacOS High Sierra upgraded the Mac’s under-the-hood file system, replacing the decades-old HFS+ with the shiny new APFS. What this means for the user is way faster file copying, the ability to revert ...