The OS X Finder accounts for temporary space used by background services, while Disk Utility and other tools do not. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

Sometimes OS X's Disk Utility may show errors with a drive when it's run from one location, but will describe the drive as perfectly healthy when run from another. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

Disk Utility has stayed more or less the same for years, but Apple has given the Mac power user’s much-loved maintenance tool a big overhaul in El Capitan, making it look different and removing ...

Apple released its latest macOS update in September, dubbed High Sierra. For most, it should provide a fairly solid experience, however, if you want to perform more advanced tasks, such as formatting ...

One of OS X’s most versatile utilities is Disk Utility—a tool not only used for formatting and managing a variety of storage devices, but also employed for fixing damaged volumes and performing the ...

There’s a very practical piece of software many Mac users may not even know they have, even though it’s included on every Mac sold. I speak of Disk Utility, Apple’s much-overlooked tool for managing ...

OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...

I have been searching all over Apple's support site to find out if you can make a FireWire RAID using Disk Utility under Jaguar, and I cannot seem to get a definitive answer.<BR><BR>There is a ...

A reader recently contacted us with a question regarding her decision to recycle an older iMac computer. She wanted to know how she could clear/reformat the hard drive, but didn't have the disks that ...