Although Apple started using the new APFS file system by default a couple of years ago in Mac OS 10.14 Mojave, the Time Machine backup system has continued to use the old HFS+ file system. The reason ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=31442945#p31442945:3nir1k87 said: marcoskirsch[/url]":3nir1k87]This is a good overview. There's some big features ...

Consumers (read: probably you) don’t typically dig into their file system; they only get upset when they run out of space on their computer. That’s part of the reason Apple created its new, ...

Apple will share news regarding APFS for Mac Fusion Drives “very soon,” claims Apple’s software engineering VP, Craig Federighi. Short for Apple File System, APFS was introduced with the arrival of ...

Time Machine no longer lets you delete individual files from backup snapshots, though you can still delete an entire snapshot. That shouldn’t be a problem: in almost no case does it make sense to ...

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