Haiku OS has made significant improvements with bug fixes, new features, and performance enhancements. The latest updates ...

The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective From the archives: In the '90s, OS geeks adored BFS's ahead-of-its-time feature set.

A file system is a major component of the operating system (OS). Applications command the OS to input and output data, and the file system reads and writes the sectors on the storage drive.

There are many different ways to organize files and directories in a computer, but in the abstract of how that happens at the hardware and OS level ...

If needed, Apple's TextEdit program can be used to modify hidden system files.

There several ways to find files in OS X, the most popular of which are GUI-based routines such as the Spotlight menu and the Finder search, both of which offer quick access to the system's ...

Depending on the partition scheme, these are the file systems Mac OS 10.4 supports: Mac OS Extended or HFS+ is an improved version of Apple's Hierarchical File System from the mid-1980s.

Reimer also talked about the different file systems used by NeXT and then Mac OS X. Over time, the influence of the NeXT people waned, and some of their hard-line decisions were revisited.

In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing.

In the Mac OS it is possible to change the default program the operating system will use to open a file when you double-click on it. After you have changed this file association, though, you may ...

In the "File System" dropdown, choose exFAT instead of NTFS. Click Start and close this window when finished. From then on, that drive should work fantastically between Mac and Windows machines.