Clutter can sneak up on you — one screenshot here, an app icon there — and one day you wake up to your Mac desktop looking like a digital junkyard. And this chaos is the little leak that can sink a ...

Finder is the premier file management utility within macOS - here are the secret settings I tweak to make it a more powerful ...

Let’s face it. One of the most strenuous tasks of all time using a computer is to organize all the different files on a machine to make it easier to locate them when required. And, in the process, ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

A lot of us, at some point in time, find ourselves in a situation where we struggle to manage the different files on our machine and have them organized in a manner that is easy to find and simplifies ...

Creating folders is a great way to organize all the files on your Mac and keep things tidy, especially if you just updated your Mac. But after a while, a stockpile of folders is no better than a ...

Right from within the Files app on your iPhone or iPad, you can look up any folder or document on your Mac and read it. With one tap you can dig through your Mac as if it were on your iOS device, and ...

The Macintosh operating system has a quick and convenient way to organize files by type. Business users that are used to using Windows systems simply need to learn the terminology used on a Macintosh ...

Your Mac is hiding things from you – files and folders, that is. The macOS file system allows most folders to be flagged as either visible or hidden. Many of the hidden ones are housekeeping or ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac If you have an old Mac that doesn’t support AirDrop, or you use a PC with your iPhone or iPad, then getting files from one to the other is a real pain. Readdle’s ...

Decades ago, Apple launched the Macintosh, now known simply as Mac, line of computers. Sure, the tech world has seen Apple come out with some weird Macs over the years, but for the most part, it has ...

With macOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple introduced a way to offload some of your Mac’s storage dynamically using iCloud. The Documents & Desktop option had the most impact, in that it could not just sync your ...