Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems and ...

Emptying the trash prevents unauthorized access to your sensitive and proprietary business data. Deleting a file using the standard method of emptying the trash can leave your data vulnerable to ...

Reader Steve Carter would like his deleted files to be really, really gone. He writes: How do you delete a file completely and forever? I thought the original still remains on the hard drive until it ...

If you are struggling with not enough storage and trying to make more space on your Mac, Apple helpfully outlines ways to save space and shows some mysteriously named elements taking up storage space.

Some files in macOS may not be necessary and can be safely removed from your Mac. Here's how to delete them. macOS is a UNIX-based system at its core, and as such, its filesystem arrangement is more ...