All files on your Mac, be it pictures, videos or documents, are stored in directories as part of the hard drive hierarchy. As you use your computer, so many of these files accumulate over time that ...

Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe ...

Do you use several Apple devices and want to copy and paste images, text, or files from one to another? It's not only possible, but Apple also makes it surprisingly simple, too. On supported iPhones, ...

If you only want to move a few photos over from one Mac to the other we recommend AirDrop, but if it’s the whole Photos library you want to move, with all your Albums and associated data in place, we ...

Dragging files around the Finder was life-changing in the 1980s after decades of entering commands in a terminal or shell that required precise syntax. Decades later, some of us may have forgotten a ...

On Windows, it’s easy to cut and paste files and folders between locations; but that’s one of the first things people notice missing from Mac OS X. The Windows system works just like cutting and ...

When you want to move data from an old Mac to a new one, the most reliable method is to use Apple's Migration Assistant. Found in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder, Migration Assistant ...

Sanuj Bhatia, the managing editor at Pocketnow, is responsible for supervising and contributing to all the content published on the website, including news, reviews, features, and how-tos. He began ...

Apple has implemented an easy-to-use file-sharing system for MacOS, providing a straightforward way for Mac owners to share files, data, and folders with other individuals. Choosing what specific ...

One of the best pieces of functionality that comes up with having a Mac and iPhone is seamless file transfer between both devices. Except for when it isn't. For one reason or another, the ease of use ...

Some users experience kernel panics when attempting to copy large files from volume to volume under Mac OS X 10.4.x. The same kernel panics do not occur for the same files when running Mac OS X 10.3.x ...