However, in late 2025, while searching for Windows tools to automate boring tasks, I came across DropIt, an open-source ...

When people talk about file compression, they usually mean ZIP. In fact, they often make it into a verb–much like we “Google” things on the Internet, we “zip” files before sending them over email. But ...

Reader Pam is looking for a way to “clean out duplicate files, documents, pictures, etc.,” but doesn’t want to spend money on the project. In other words, she wants a freeware solution. I’ve got just ...

Google is preparing to soon launch a new mobile app called Files Go that will allow Android users to better manage the files on their phone, transfer those files easily – even when offline – as well ...

Let's be honest; while Microsoft has added a few handy features to the File Explorer (thanks for the tab-based layout, by the way, I love it), it's still missing a few bits. Fortunately, you don't ...

Our monthly Troubleshooting Tools column, penned by MacFixIt Contributing Editor Dan Frakes, covers products that can help you maintain and fix your Mac. BatchMod also has one other, slightly hidden, ...

I use NTBackup to do a daily incremental backup of changed files (to augment the weekly Fulls) on our main file server. I had casually noted in the past that a few gigs a day had changed and didn't ...