Your disk’s journal aims to prevent disk errors which can occur after a crash. Here’s how to use it to protect your Mac’s data.
Disk Utility
Late last year, the utility for repairing keychains quietly vanished from macOS 10.11.2. No one seems to know where its functionality went.
10.11.5 removes a bug in Disk Utility by disabling the feature to resize some partitions. That’s really helpful, isn’t it.
The list is a little shorter than for 10.11.3, but some old favourites are still there.
How much is the data stored on your Mac’s drives worth? DriveDx is a utility which could save you from that loss.
The list has grown since 10.11.2, with none of the previous bugs being fixed in 10.11.3.
Disk Utility has a bug which can waste a lot of time trying to re-partition drives, and HFS+ creaks horribly.
Being a hybrid, naming disks and volumes can get complex in OS X. This article demystifies them.
How to inspect and change them, in the Finder and the command line.
228.7 GB of my internal disk is occupied by ‘Other’. Where has this gone, and how can I reclaim it?
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