Disk images used by Macs are useful for managing files and folders together, backing them up, and simplifying software installation, but they have had performance issues. In particular, when an ...

What just happened? Apple's latest update for Macs, macOS 26 Tahoe, introduces a significant leap forward in disk image technology with the debut of the ASIF format – a development that could reshape ...

A practical detail in the upcoming new Mac operating system macOS 26 aka Tahoe: Apple has tweaked its encrypted disk images. As IT blogger and Mac & i author Howard Oakley has noticed, the Mac ...

Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...