Spotlight, the automatic file index and search utility on your Mac, automatically indexes files on external drives for searching. When you connect an external hard drive to your computer, files on the ...

Looking to share an external hard drive between a Mac and PC? The best way to do it is with a drive formatted as FAT32. Though this format has some limitations, it enjoys nearly universal support from ...

External hard drives connect to computers over universal serial bus and contain a larger amount of storage than USB flash drives. You can use an external hard drive to transfer files from your Mac to ...

Learn how to back up your computer data safely using cloud backup and external hard drives with this beginner-friendly, ...

Normally when you plug in an external hard drive to your Mac’s USB port you will see it appear on the desktop. You can also see it in a Finder window in the left ...

If you are someone who uses different operating systems — presumably macOS and Windows — you might often find the need to view/share/transfer files between the two systems. While one way to go about ...

Many users have experienced problems reading files stored on external or networked drives. Apple Discussions poster dafoxman writes: "After migration of G5 system from cloned drive some of my folders ...