Poor Disk Utility. It seems fated to remain one of Mac OS X’s most underappreciated utilities. If you’ve even launched it at all, chances are you haven’t gone beyond using its First Aid features to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

Disk Utility is a hard disk management application that comes with the Mac operating system. The software offers a number of hard drive management functions, including the ability to partition and ...

I spent more than 2 hours googling and trying to solve the following problem without success. Disk utility shows my 1TB SSD as circular diagram with what seems to be 2 partitions: 930GB formatted as ...

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 ...

Practically everyone has files or folders they keep on their Mac that they don't want anyone else to access. AppleInsider explains how to keep these files secure by turning a folder into a protected ...

The built-in tools make it easy to partition your Mac hard drive. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you want to install a beta version of macOS, either for software development or for simply ...