Disk Utility is a hard disk management application that comes with the Mac operating system. The software offers a number of hard drive management functions, including the ability to partition and ...

There are a few less obvious features for managing and manipulating your storage devices in the macOS Disk Utility. In the third part of our deep dive into Disk Utility, here's how to find and use ...

The built-in tools make it easy to partition your Mac hard drive. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you want to install a beta version of macOS, either for software development or for simply ...

MacFixIt reader Bill reports that performing a reformat of the iPod's hard drive in Apple's Disk Utility (located in Applications/Utilities) can sometimes work as a ...

Disk Utility hadn’t changed much over the years. The hoary app used for creating logical divisions in disks, applying first aid to ones with data damage, and repairing permissions seemed a thing from ...

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 ...

The OS X Finder accounts for temporary space used by background services, while Disk Utility and other tools do not. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or ...

I spent more than 2 hours googling and trying to solve the following problem without success. Disk utility shows my 1TB SSD as circular diagram with what seems to be 2 partitions: 930GB formatted as ...