What’s in APFS, and what are its tools? How to interpret the version number, and what do we know has changed with different versions? How compatible are they?
Disk Utility
When you’ve worked out which files or folders are causing errors in APFS, what can you do to ensure they don’t recur?
If you’re wondering how to store snippets of private info, sensitive files, or folders full of secrets, here’s how to use the right features in macOS.
Repairing permissions has a long history in Mac OS X. The permissions concerned have changed over the years, and it’s no longer what it once was.
How to protect collections of files using different encryption passwords, and making most efficient use of storage space.
Disk errors threaten your data: how to detect them, how to use First Aid in Disk Utility, how to use fsck, and what to do with the disk afterward.
Disk Utility version 22.6 in Ventura 13.4 finally tackles bugs running First Aid on APFS volumes. Has it finally solved them?
The update to macOS Ventura 13.4 is relatively small, and brings several improvements and fixes, including the following […]
How can you have two volumes in the same APFS container with identical names? How does macOS handle the conflicts?
After studying thousand of log entries in less than 2 seconds, this is how macOS updates its values for purgeable and available space. But who uses them?
The Eclectic Light Company 