File management plays the most crucial role in a computer system. It controls how data are stored, organized, and retrieved from a storage medium. In other words, it simply separates data on the drive ...

For those of us who rarely transfer files physically across devices, file-format capability may be a distant memory. It used to occupy a lot of attention. But it still crops up whenever you’re trying ...

I own a pretty ancient Apple Mac 512e (with 68k cpu) which dates from 1985 or thereabouts, maybe older. It still works, but a lot of our games discs got corrupted, so I started downloading some off ...

A MacFixIt reader reports issues formatting disks in MS-DOS FAT using Apple's Disk Utility. When storage devices (in this case, flash memory cards) are formatted using Disk Utility, they may not be ...