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A handy new feature of macOS Sequoia allows a mounted volume to self-eject once a process copying files from it ends. Here's how to use it. If you've ever copied a large file from a mounted .dmg file ...

Way back in 2004, I covered Ejector, a menu-bar utility for quickly ejecting any mounted volume. While it’s easy to eject such volumes from Finder-window sidebars or the Desktop, not everyone chooses ...

Disk Utility ships with macOS and has been part of the operating system since its first release. Here's how to use it. Disk Utility provides various tasks such as formatting storage devices, mounting ...

Is there a way to use the AppleScript "mount volume" command to mount a network volume (a Samba volume on a Windows 2000 PC in this case) as read-only?<BR><BR>Thanks in advance.

Use VeraCrypt to create encrypted virtual volumes that mount like drives and vanish when unmounted. Choose a 20+ char passphrase, add key files for 2FA, and generate entropy with random mouse movement ...

If you need to write to a mounted volume over SMB, you might want to hold off on updating to OS X 10.6.3 if you haven’t done so already: Apple support forum users are reporting major problems in ...

I’ve reviewed a few apps for keeping an eye on your drives’ free space and for making it easier to access and eject volumes; I’ve grown particularly fond of FreeSpace. I recently came across ...