Disk Jockey is an app that allows you to create disk image files for a variety of retro computers and emulators. Here's how to use it. Retro computing is popular these days, and one aspect of vintage ...

With a disk image, it's exactly as if you have saved them to a CD or DVD. Opening the disk image is like inserting a physical disk. Your Mac shows you all of the files on that and then when you've ...

Apple stealthily introduced Apple Sparse Image Format (ASIF), a new sparse disk image format for Apple Silicon, at WWDC; among other features, it might also help Macs remain the best PCs on which to ...

The alternative would be that asbath 's IT desktop services folks would use their "really good screwdriver we use all the time" to remove a disk drive from any Mac that needed to be image-overlaid, ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Bootable disc image files may contain all the data necessary to create a disc from which computers can boot, but if you want them to work, you can't just burn them to a disc the way you would regular ...

An ISO file is a digital copy of a disk image that has been extracted from physical media. Creating ISOs is a great way to archive physical discs, which are likely to degrade over time. You can mount ...

Apple's APFS file system included in macOS High Sierra suffers from a disk image vulnerability that in certain circumstances can lead to data loss, according to the creator of Carbon Copy Cloner. In a ...

Sparse disk image data loss Since we posted a reader report yesterday that claimed restarting or shutting down while a sparse disk image is mounted leads to data corruption on the disk image, we've ...