The /Applications/ folder is also usually linked to when you mount a disk image (those files that end with .dmg), encouraging you to drag applications to the /Applications/ directory. The Applications ...

Reader Ted Adams is particular about what is and isn’t in his Mac’s Applications folder. He writes: Is there any way to get rid of the applications I have no use for that are included with Lion? I ...

Apple's Recovery partition for OS X Lion contains a number of utilities, but you can only open one at a time. Here is how to open multiple utilities at the same time to ease your troubleshooting and ...

When we think of the macOS user interface, we think of the graphical UI—pointing and clicking icons, with a cursor, menus, windows, etc. But there’s another UI built into macOS: the command-line ...

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

FixApplicationsFolderPermissions 1.0 is a tool from Apple that fixes the problem where the Applications folder may be locked or have incorrect permissions after ...