When managing hard drive upgrades or replacements, sometimes you might run into permissions problems when attempting to access data on the older drive. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

If your Android-powered smartphone begins to exhibit strange behavior, your device may have some corrupted operating system files. Symptoms of corrupted Android OS files may include apps that fail to ...

In order to share files on a network in the past "classic" Mac operating system, you had to access and set up items in several locations. First, you needed to enable file sharing in one location, then ...

/:16 One of the key features missing from Mac OS X is the ability to cut and paste files in the Finder; you can only copy and paste. With two handy Automator Services, though, you can do either ...

News about the new release of OS X, “Mavericks,” is trickling out as developers and other WWDC attendees post information about it to the Internet. However, hidden a bit down in Apple’s OS X Mavericks ...

In a recent column about making the most of Migration Assistant I made the off-hand remark that it’s no big deal to move files from one account on your Mac to another. This caused concern from at ...

It’s happened to us all: You delete a file, folder or entire disk, then realize you’ve made a mistake. You reach for your backup – and you don’t have a backup. What now? There are several utilities ...

I'm a bit confuzeled as to the specifics of the Mac OS ROM file in OS 9. It is my understanding that prior to 9 (or maybe earlier) the ROM on the chip was no longer used by the OS, but rather it uses ...