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Am I destined to stare at the standard 3.5"HDD icon in Mac OS for my windows boot disk for ever? I can't figure out how to edit that icon; guessing it has to do with the volume being NTFS?
The Data volume contains everything else, and is tagged in Disk Utility with a Home icon over its disk icon in the descriptive view. By using new APFS features in Catalina, Apple can create a ...
If your Mac is having problems, macOS has multiple keyboard combinations that you can hold to recover your system, start in safe mode, run diagnostics, and more. Here's how to use them.
The eternal floppy disk you could still be using every day is that floppy disk icon sitting somewhere in upper left hand corner of your Microsoft Word, Excel, or other desktop application.
Way back in 2004, I covered Ejector, a menu-bar utility for quickly ejecting any mounted volume. While it’s easy to eject such volumes from Finder-window sidebars or the Desktop, not everyone ...
Changing my Mac’s hard disk icon to the Dark Lord Sauron. A while back I decided to use some names from the Lord of the Rings for my Macs, and I opted to use Sauron as the name of my 5K iMac.
Understanding the terms "disk," "drive," "volume," "partition," and "image" is crucial for managing and optimizing your computer's storage. These terms, often used interchangeably, have distinct ...