We have received several individual reports of swap file bloating, ranging from minor dips in storage capacity to complete crippling of the system's main volume. Based on the information we have so ...

"Swap" is the name of the partition I have set aside for my swap files. All partitions (except the one Mac OS X resides on) are mounted in the "/Volumes" folder, hence the need to put it as the first ...

MacOS has a monitoring hub called the Activity Monitor, a snapshot of everything happening on your Mac right now. We’ve discussed how to use the Activity Monitor to study what background apps are ...

All files on your Mac, be it pictures, videos or documents, are stored in directories as part of the hard drive hierarchy. As you use your computer, so many of these files accumulate over time that ...