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 ...

Repairing Disk Permissions. Not exactly a topic that you would expect to spark much controversy. Yet, surprisingly, it is the focal point of a rather heated debate. The command itself is innocuous ...

OS X’s Disk Utility—which enables you to format, partition, repair, and perform other kinds of maintenance on disks (including SSDs, flash drives, and disk images)—is good for what it does. Yet for ...

THE SET UP:<BR><BR>I have a Mac Pro with two internal hard drives. The first one is partitioned, with a Windows Vista partition and an OS X partition containing the OS, all apps, etc. (The second hard ...

Repair Disk isn’t the first option you should choose if your Mac is ailing, but it is helpful when (for example): Performance has degraded Data is missing You are experiencing degraded system ...

When your MacBook hangs at startup, it could indicate a hardware- or software-related issue. Hardware-related issues can be detected by running Disk Utility. If your hard drive is failing, you should ...

The First Aid feature in Apple’s Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities) represents one of the oldest and most helpful repair utilities available for your Mac. But ...