The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective From the archives: In the '90s, OS geeks adored BFS's ahead-of-its-time feature set.

Dubbed APFS, for "Apple File System," the session description implies that the new file system is a replacement for the aged HFS+ file system, which has been used in one form or another by OS X ...

Reimer also talked about the different file systems used by NeXT and then Mac OS X. Over time, the influence of the NeXT people waned, and some of their hard-line decisions were revisited.

A file system is a major component of the operating system (OS). Applications command the OS to input and output data, and the file system reads and writes the sectors on the storage drive.

On the other side of the utility spectrum are operating systems designed by smaller developer teams. Haiku OS and SerenityOS ...

If needed, Apple's TextEdit program can be used to modify hidden system files.

After upgrading or making major changes to the system, you may find yourself burdened with authentication messages when managing files in OS X. What now?

There are other file system providers, too This is yet another useful application that takes advantage of the features Google added back in Chrome OS version 40. You can open the Files app on ...

In the "File System" dropdown, choose exFAT instead of NTFS. Click Start and close this window when finished. From then on, that drive should work fantastically between Mac and Windows machines.