Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

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 ...

The ability to report a file doesn't require the integrity/healing to be in the file-system though, it just requires unrecoverable blocks to be reported somehow, e.g- to the OS, which can then try to ...