Preview can do more than just show you a file in macOS, as it is especially handy for annotating images and editing PDFs.

You can use the macOS Finder's Copy command to copy and paste files. But here's how to use the same command to copy file icons into Preview. You've probably used the macOS Finder's popup contextual ...

Offline Files is a small macOS app that indexes external drives once and keeps the metadata locally, so you can search across ...

APFS is Apple's first new file system in more than 30 years. Here's what it means for existing Macs and new hardware. I've been writing about software and hardware for PCMag for more than 40 years, ...

This morning at WWDC, Apple announced that APFS will be the default file system in macOS High Sierra. That's great news -- and here's why. Those features get APFS up to feature parity with just about ...

Pacifist is a popular file extractor for macOS that lets users view and extract multiple file formats, including PKG, DMG, XAR, and TAR. The app recently received a major update with Pacifist 4.0, ...

Update 11/30: Apple has issued a new version of the update with the same version number that appears to fix the File Sharing authentication issue caused by the initial fix. Following the discovery of ...

Since the release of macOS 13.2 in late January, some Mac users have complained about network file sharing via SMB not working anymore. Fortunately, with the upcoming macOS 13.3 update, it appears ...

Hi folks. This is hard because I'm not even sure how to google it. I get lots of answers for the wrong 'no entry' badge which isn't my question. I have a photo file on my desktop, the icon is a ...

I enjoy mixing Android and MacBook. File transfers can be tricky, but I manage just fine with these easy hacks. Editorial Note: Talk Android may contain affiliate links on some articles. If you make a ...