Spotlight, the automatic file index and search utility on your Mac, automatically indexes files on external drives for searching. When you connect an external hard drive to your computer, files on the ...

External hard drives connect to computers over universal serial bus and contain a larger amount of storage than USB flash drives. You can use an external hard drive to transfer files from your Mac to ...

Looking to share an external hard drive between a Mac and PC? The best way to do it is with a drive formatted as FAT32. Though this format has some limitations, it enjoys nearly universal support from ...

Learn how to back up your computer data safely using cloud backup and external hard drives with this beginner-friendly, ...

Apple charges a premium for built-in storage, so investing in an affordable external drive can help solve your storage problems without breaking the bank. Here are a few tips to ensure you’re making ...

Normally when you plug in an external hard drive to your Mac’s USB port you will see it appear on the desktop. You can also see it in a Finder window in the left ...

With the release of macOS High Sierra and its upgrade for SSD-based startup volumes to Apple File System (APFS), Macworld readers had many questions about how this new filesystem—more efficient and ...

If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly. While there is a lot of interoperability between Apple's ...

Amid the widespread shift to subscription-based cloud storage solutions, relying on good-old physical drives can be a reassuring sense of independence. Whether you're trying to repurpose an old hard ...