The Web's always been great for e-mail, shopping and entertainment, but it's also quickly becoming a virtual filing cabinet for our digital lives. Thanks to a growing range of services, it's now ...

We previously noted that deleting .DS_Store files (repositories that contain various Finder properties -- "View" settings and positioning of icons, for instance and are created by Mac OS X to store ...

I’m a big fan of cloud sync storage services and regularly use Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive to store and share files. To keep my information safe, these services encrypt my files while they’re ...

Apple's iCloud file storage service is a handy way to store and share files, but it can remove important file attributes during sync. Here's how to fix that. Apple's macOS and some other operating ...

Q: My four-year-old Windows 10 laptop has a weird problem when saving Microsoft Word files. In the last couple of months, the time it takes Word to save a file has gone from nearly instantaneous to ...

After discussing many good and useful Microsoft Store apps, I will focus on two very useful File Explorer apps for Windows 11 and Windows 10 today. File manager & Explorer apps for Windows 11/10 While ...

What is the DS_store file? These are hidden files used by macOS (proprietary), which keeps a record of attributes or meta-data about the folder in which it resides. It holds data such as the position ...

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Some macOS users have been met with copyright violation notices when trying to upload their own files to Google's cloud storage service. A disgruntled Reddit user recently reported that a '.DS_Store' ...