HFS was introduced in System 2.1 ("System" being what we called "Mac OS" in the days before operating systems gained their broad and ubiquitous sex appeal). HFS improved upon the Macintosh File ...

Mac OS Extended or HFS+ is an improved version of Apple's Hierarchical File System from the mid-1980s. Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive) is the same file system, but in this case, it treats file ...

Apple's new APFS, whose beta is part of macOS Sierra, will change - for the better - your Mac experience starting next year. The business value of APFS: it will make all Apple devices faster, more ...

Mac OS Extended was introduced in 1998 for Mac OS 8.1, the previous iteration of the desktop operating system found on Apple’s computers which ran on IBM’s PowerPC processors.

Apple dropped "System" from its OS titles. Finder was upgraded in various ways, including an improvement of the file system that saved hundreds of megabytes of disc space on hard drives above 1GB.

Apple may have given up on the idea of building Sun Microsystems' ZFS file system into Mac OS X, but one of its engineers has picked up where Apple left off.

Apple's APFS is already on millions of iOS devices - it's on a couple of mine - but it's invisible to users. By the time it ships on Mac OS later this year, it will have thousands of user-years of ...

The Apple File System (APFS) is the next-generation file system designed to scale from an Apple Watch to a Mac Pro. APFS is optimized for Flash/SSD storage, and engineered with encryption as a ...

If your Mac system has one of Apple’s Fusion caching drives, then you may need to take some extra steps when upgrading to the new version of MacOS — High Sierra. The new Apple File System ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of ...