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Not all of your files are stored in the cloud. Learn how to move files between your Chromebook and an external hard drive, thumbdrive or SD card. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus ...

While using a Windows PC over a MacOS system (or vice versa) was once fairly limited in terms of crossover, such towering walls no longer exist. Still though, if you’ve ever wanted to use the same ...

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 ...

USB4 external SSDs deliver 3,000–3,800 MB/s real-world speeds, doubling USB 3.2 performance for 4K editing, backups, and ...

External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also ...

For proper functioning Windows installs some essential system files on your computer. These files are stored in the Windows installation directory and are very important to the Windows operating ...

With the release of macOS High Sierra and its upgrade for SSD-based startup volumes to Apple File System (APFS), Macworld readers had many questions about how this new filesystem—more efficient and ...