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Top 5 Best Cleaner Software to Speed Up your Mac
Macs are loved for their reliability and polish. But, like all computers, even Macs tend to slow down with age. When that happens, many people choose the nuclear option: a complete system reinstall. There are cases when a full reinstall […]
What is the Concept of Wear Leveling on an SSD Drive?
A Solid State Drive (SSD) is a storage device that is constructed without the use of moving mechanical parts. An SSD stores data electronically by employing flash memory. Their architecture is a radical departure from the traditional storage devices previously […]
Make Your Mac Run Faster with These Tips
It’s not unusual for Mac computers to slow down over time when not properly maintained. To keep your Mac computer in an excellent condition, you must do a thorough cleanup once in a while, and this article explains how. How […]
Accents and Special Characters on Mac Computer
Do you own a Mac computer with the standard English keyboard layout and need to write Spanish or French accents and various special characters on a regular basis? Then you probably find yourself copy-pasting the characters and symbols you need […]
How to Copy and Paste on Mac Computers
There are two main methods how you can copy and paste text, documents, images, and other content across applications and web pages. The Keyboard Method The first method involves three very handy keyboard shortcuts that you should definitely remember: Command-X […]
Speed Up Your Mac
People rarely talk about this, but Macs do slow down over time. Your Mac may have started its life as a beautiful, fast Apple box, but it will collect files and corrupted data like a sponge as it ages. This […]
How to Right-Click on a Mac
Mac computers have a lot of things going for them. While more expensive than other computer brands, their unifying ecosystems ensure that your Mac computer will always work out of the box. However, as any new Mac user soon realizes, […]
5 Ways to Reset & Change a Lost Admin Password on Mac
Have you lost your Mac OS X admin password? Don’t despair; you’re not the first person in this sticky situation. In fact, people lose passwords all the time — both to admin and regular accounts. Fortunately, there are multiple methods […]
How to Download & Install Old Versions of Mac OS X
One of the best aspects of owning a Mac is the great upgrade system it is. It will always give you the best, most recent version of OS X for your system, ensuring that you are always up to date […]
How to Uninstall Apps on Mac
You need to know how to uninstall programs on Mac computers to free storage space. On the surface, this seems like an easy task. You can uninstall most applications just by moving their folders to the Trash. However, this will […]
Disk Drill vs Data Rescue, DiskWarrior, R-Studio. Choose the best data recovery app.
The choice of quality data recovery tools for macOS is in fact limited to several high-end players you have probably heard about: Disk Drill by CleverFiles, Data Rescue by Prosoft, DiskWarrior by Alsoft, Data Recovery Wizard by Easeus, TechTool by Micromat, Stellar Phoenix […]
How to search for duplicates and eliminate them
Disk Drill allows you to search for duplicated files and remove them in order to free additional disk space. This option is tightly integrated in Disk Drill, so that you can remove duplicates directly from the application. To check a […]
How to clean up your Mac for free with Disk Drill?
Starting with Disk Drill version 2.4, we have added a new feature to help you visualize the space on your drives and identify files that may be taking up a lot of space. Starting with Disk Drill 3 release, the feature […]
How Can I Export Forensic Data (DFXML)?
Disk Drill is a data recovery tool with only one “forensics” feature so far: it returns the layout information for recovered files in a machine-readable format for further processing (CSV, SQLite database or DFXML). This allows for their forensic analysis […]
Known Issue: Can’t Run Programs (.app Files) from a Mounted Disk
If you have Disk Drill PRO and have recovered items to a DMG (disk image) you may notice that you cannot launch applications from the disk image. We have investigated this issue, but have not yet found a definitive answer. […]
How Do I Mount Scanning Results As a Disk and Recover From It?
One of the great features of Disk Drill PRO is that you don’t have to preview files in Disk Drill. You can instead recover them to a virtual disk and open the files in their native applications. Note that a third-party […]
Why Should I Remount Disks/Partitions In Read-Only Mode?
Whenever you have a disk connected to your Mac, it can be accessed by other programs. iPhoto might try to access your camera, Time Machine might want to backup to an external hard drive, etc. This kind of access can […]
What Do I Do If My Disk Image Can’t Be Mounted?
Disk Drill lets you backup any media (disk, memory card, etc) into a disk image (DMG). This is quite convenient for later recovery, especially if the disk you need to recover from is failing. In cases where the disk image […]