HFS – Http File Server is a truly nifty idea that requires justa bit more technical know-how than, perhaps, it should. HFS is a tool that allows you to set up file sharing from yourhome computer, for ...

Continuing our previous coverage of the "Apache and Case Insensitivity security issue," Robert Dotson suggests that the problem is not really a bug, but more an inherent part of using UNIX on HFS. He ...

Many users will remember that hard drive "journaling," now standard on Panther installations, was originally introduced in OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) as a "Mac OS X Server-only" feature; however, since the ...

Mac computers segment their hard disks in a format called HFS plus, which is the most recent version of Apple's Hierarchical File System. This file system is different from the NTFS system used by ...

I’ve written quite a bit about the not-quite-so-new Apple File System (APFS) format that Apple adopted for both iOS and—with macOS 10.13 High Sierra—for SSDs that are a Mac’s boot volume. While ...

Apple is officially retiring encrypted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) volume support in macOS 28. Here’s how to make sure your old ...

Used to be you could create a disk image in Disk Utility and pick HFS standard as the format. Once you created the disk image and filled it with data you could then use Disk Utility to burn the image ...