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If you’re using an SSD with a Mac, you’ll want to make sure that drive is formatted to APFS. Here’s how to do it with macOS Disk Utility.

You can use the Disk Utility in macOS Monterey to repair a variety of problems. Let’s look at how to repair a storage device that you use with your Mac running macOS Monterey.

Disk Utility, the macOS Swiss Army knife for working with disks and storage volumes, may have a few blades missing, especially when it comes to working with unformatted drives and unused space on a disk or storage volume. In versions...

Disk Utility's Restore function can be used to copy the content from one volume to another. In this respect, it’s similar to the process of cloning a volume, and indeed, the Restore function can be used to create bootable clones....

Disk First Aid, currently part of Disk Utility, has long been the go-to utility for verifying and repairing a Mac's storage system. Included as a standalone app with the original Mac OS, it was later folded into Disk Utility when...

Disk Utility has long been the workhorse of choice for dealing with hard drives, SSDs, and disk images. With the advent of APFS (Apple File System) with macOS High Sierra, Disk Utility acquired some additional capabilities that allow it to...

The Mac's Disk Utility app supports a number of capabilities that make managing the Mac's storage system easier. But one set of features seems to get overlooked a bit: the creation and management of encrypted disk images. Disk images have...

There may come a time when you want to completely remove all traces of information on your Mac's drives. It may be because you're selling or donating your Mac, and you want all your personal information wiped clean from the...

Disk Utility, in all of its incarnations, has always had a restore function, a way to copy a disk volume or image file to another volume, creating an exact copy. We often think of this as cloning a drive, so...