This category offers a variety of tips to help you get the most out of your MacBook. Whether you want to work more efficiently or master a specific program, you’ll find plenty of useful articles here to suit your needs.
When you want to open a document in macOS that you have recently edited, you might find yourself locating it on your hard drive, or searching for it in Spotlight. Along these lines, you can also create a smart folder that only shows files that were recently edited; however, macOS contains several approaches to opening … Read more
Accessing Recovery Mode in macOS may be necessary for restoring from a backup, and reinstalling macOS, among other low-level administrative tasks. In most cases, your Mac will have a local recovery partition based on the current macOS installation, that you can access; however, there may be instances where this will not work. For those who … Read more
When some problems such as hard drive corruption occur on your Mac, or if you need to perform account maintenance such as resetting passwords or fixing account permissions, then you will need to use the tools that Apple includes on the hidden Recovery drive that is part of OS X. However, in some cases such … Read more
While shutting down and restarting your computer might sound trivial, and are perhaps obvious tasks in most cases, there are a number of ways to go about doing these on your Mac, many of which you might not be aware of. Some of the approaches for shutting down and restarting may be preferred in most … Read more
If you need to look up how much of your Mac’s disk space is being used, you can simply choose About This Mac from the Apple menu, and then click the More Info button to bring up the system information summary. In here, you can click the Storage section, to see all attached hard drives … Read more