You can put partitions with any of the supported file systems on a GUID disk, but only Macs running Mac OS 10.4 can access these disks. In most cases, you'll want to use Mac OS Extended (Journaled ...

The default file-sharing protocol for OS X is Apple's "Apple Filing Protocol" (AFP) service, which is the primary service enabled when you select File Sharing in the system preferences. Enabling ...

The operating system doesn’t have any say in how an SSD’s controller does its job or which blocks the SSD controller uses to write data—the OS knows all about its file system, but nothing ...

As of the latest Chrome OS Canary, this flag creates a new hidden folder called “.Trash” located in “My files.” In the coming days though, the folder is being relocated to Downloads/.Trash ...

In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing.

Get an FTP client (such as Fetch 4.0.3 for OS 8 or 9--available here) and then connect to the OS X machine using the FTP protocol which was enabled on the OS X machine. Connecting to the OS 9 machine ...

Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems—HFS+, FAT32, and exFAT, with read-only support for NTFS. It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel.

After that, the shared folder should show up in the Chrome OS Files app. If you don’t want to install Chrome OS Canary to try out the feature, just wait another month or so.

Lana Y. writes in with a problem related to getting rid of files in OS X. Like many people, she wants to use Trash as a way station and then opt to empty trash later. Instead, she notes (along ...