File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS. In 1987 - just a few ...

Converting a CSV file to a PDF can be useful if you want to include your spreadsheet data as part of a presentation, or distribute figures to people who do not have access to a spreadsheet program.

Most Mac lovers love the Mac for the carefully wrought user interfaces and the crisp design, and never pay attention to the open source at the heart of the operating system. But underneath this ...

In macOS, the Open With contextual menu that appears when you right-click (or Ctrl-click) on a file provides links to all the applications installed on your Mac that are associated with that file type ...

Batch changing your file permissions can save a great deal of time, since you don't have to individually select files to determine who can access or view them. You can change permissions for files in ...

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(Mods: I wasn't sure where to put this thread, but I thought the Mac Ach folks might be more knowledgeable about this sort of cross-platform issue than the Microsoft ...