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 ...

When it comes to Mac OS X troubleshooting and maintenance, Repairing permissions may be the most frequently recommended course of action. It’s also easily the most maligned. The procedure has taken ...

It won't cure all of your Mac's ills, but a quick and easy first step toward bringing a sluggish Mac back to health is using OS X's Disk Utility to repair disk permissions. Matt Elliott Senior Editor ...

Windows may lock some files and prevent access to them from within File Explorer for a number of possible reasons. In many cases, a program that crashes or freezes does not release or reset the file ...

First, try unlinking and relinking OneDrive to see if that helps. When you unlink OneDrive from your system, all the files and folders stored on the cloud will disappear from your computer. They will ...

Despite its colourful exterior it’s always worth remembering that Mac OS X is a very powerful Unix-based operating system. Underneath the hood is a complex OS with careful control over who gets to do ...

If Word, Excel, PowerPoint automatically reset settings on exit, follow these instructions e.g. check folder and Reigtsry ...

A DMG file is a proprietary disk image file format developed by Apple for its Macintosh line of computers. These are large, single files that comprise the entirety of a physical disk, such as a DVD or ...

Every day, tons of files are downloaded from the Internet, from applications, images, videos, and audio files to plain text files. If you get an error message in ...