It won't cure all of your Mac's ills, but a quick and easy first step toward bringing a sluggish Mac back to health is using OS X's Disk Utility to repair disk permissions. Matt Elliott Senior Editor ...
On an older Intel-chipped MacBook Pro, press and hold the power button for about 10 seconds, then press and release the power ...
Repairing Disk Permissions. Not exactly a topic that you would expect to spark much controversy. Yet, surprisingly, it is the focal point of a rather heated debate. The command itself is innocuous ...
When your MacBook hangs at startup, it could indicate a hardware- or software-related issue. Hardware-related issues can be detected by running Disk Utility. If your hard drive is failing, you should ...
OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...
Disk Utility is a hard disk management application that comes with the Mac operating system. The software offers a number of hard drive management functions, including the ability to partition and ...