One drawback to having multiple users on OS X is there is no easy way to limit the amount of disk space used by that user. If a user has write access to a file system, then they can fill the drive ...

From Lion’s Install notes: – The Recovery partition may not be created when installing Lion on a drive with an unsupported partition scheme. This is a pretty interesting addition to the OS. When you ...

Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

I've done some googling, but maybe I'm not using the right combination of keywords. Basically, I'm thinking of getting a 512GB rMBP to replace my current rMBP (128GB). I'd like to allocate 256GB for ...

As most OS X users are probably aware "virtual memory" (or paging, in OS X's case) is always "on," as is the case with any modern operating system. It is an integral part of the kernel's functionality ...

(MENAFN- PR Newswire) NEW YORK, July 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- EaseUS, the leading provider of disk management software, has just released an update to their popular disk partition manager software - ...

Last week we posted directions for reverting from OS X Lion to Snow Leopard. Certainly, we don’t condone it: We love Lion (you can read all about it in our OS X Lion review), but that doesn’t change ...