An archive or disk image may have utility in speeding up a whole disk backup because the internal file structure is now hidden from the file system. Instead of numerous files and directories in the ...

An ISO disc image is a special file that stores the contents of an entire CD or DVD on your computer hard drive. Keeping an ISO backup of expensive software such as Microsoft Office on your computer ...

Here at TidBITS, we like to think that we face adversity so you don’t have to. We use our Macs all day long, sometimes even in the evenings, looking for ways to shoulder your karmic burden of computer ...

Sometimes a specific disk image in OS X will automatically mount if a file on it is targeted by the system. Here are some methods for fixing this issue. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, ...

In the latest releases of both my ebooks on backups (“Take Control of Mac OS X Backups” and “Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard“), I include sidebars titled “(Sparse) Bundles of Joy,” in which I ...

The days of depending on CDs and DVDs for storage usage have come to an end, calling for a more reliable and updated way to keep that vital information safe. Your best option for transferring these ...

Although .dmg is a macOS disk format, there are a number reasons of why you'd want open them on Windows computers. Here's how to get started. The .dmg (Disk Image) suffix is associated with Apple's ...

I purchased a license of Windows 7 Ultimate from my university. I plant to upgrade a Windows 7 Home PC to Ultimate and then to Windows 10 Pro. It much cheaper than purchasing the Pro upgrade from MS.

Poor Disk Utility. It seems fated to remain one of Mac OS X’s most underappreciated utilities. If you’ve even launched it at all, chances are you haven’t gone beyond using its First Aid features to ...

Have you ever experienced an issue where a disk image is mounted then subsequently unmounted, but disk space of the same quantity as the image remains occupied on your startup volume (hard disk)? If ...