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 you would like to verify two copies of files or two mirrored directories, there are some Terminal commands that will let you do just that. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

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 ...

When you need to move files quickly between two Apple devices, AirDrop is an incredibly useful tool. It started out as a Mac-to-Mac thing, and then iPhone-to-iPhone, but with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, ...

Preview, Apple's simple, utilitarian image and PDF viewer, offers insight into how the company plans to deeply integrate iCloud into apps and simplify and improve file management in general in this ...

Any files that start with a period on a Mac are considered hidden files in the Mac OS and are not visible from within the Finder. You can see these hidden files from within the Terminal utility by ...

Google’s Chrome OS is currently limited in how it handles Android files in the native file browser app, but that will soon be changing with the addition of the ability to view and work with those ...

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 ...