What just happened? Apple's latest update for Macs, macOS 26 Tahoe, introduces a significant leap forward in disk image technology with the debut of the ASIF format – a development that could reshape ...

Although .dmg is a macOS disk format, there are a number reasons of why you'd want open them on Windows computers. Here's how to get started. The .dmg (Disk Image) suffix is associated with Apple's ...

Apple stealthily introduced Apple Sparse Image Format (ASIF), a new sparse disk image format for Apple Silicon, at WWDC; among other features, it might also help Macs remain the best PCs on which to ...

Disk images used by Macs are useful for managing files and folders together, backing them up, and simplifying software installation, but they have had performance issues. In particular, when an ...

Here at TidBITS, we like to think that we face adversity so you don’t have to. We use our Macs all day long, sometimes even in the evenings, looking for ways to shoulder your karmic burden of computer ...

The alternative would be that asbath 's IT desktop services folks would use their "really good screwdriver we use all the time" to remove a disk drive from any Mac that needed to be image-overlaid, ...

In the latest releases of both my ebooks on backups (“Take Control of Mac OS X Backups” and “Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard“), I include sidebars titled “(Sparse) Bundles of Joy,” in which I ...