适用于Mac和Windows的ExFAT格式化外部驱动器

When you work (or live) in an environment that consists of both Mac and Windows computers, it becomes a constant headache negotiating the different filesystems and their compatibility. First, there is the lack of NTFS write capability on Mac’s. Then there is the inability to write files greater than 4gb on Fat32 and of course the complete lack of support on Windows for a Mac drive formatted with HFS+. There are two answers. One is to use a paid 3rd party tool to add NTFS write support to a Mac, such as Paragon’s NTFS for Mac tool. The other is to format your drives with the exFAT file system. This file system can be read and written by both Mac and Windows with support for single files of up to 128 petabytes! Even better, it’s freely included in both operating systems.

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我的Macbook电池肿了,怎么回事?

The swollen battery pack of a Macbook Pro

It’s a common problem with ageing Macbooks. In fact, every single Macbook I’ve ever owned has had this problem, some more than once.

It starts out with what seems like a bit of a bulge under the front of your Macbook. Soon the trackpad starts to have problems. Sometimes it seems like you can only press it when you apply pressure at the correct angles. Soon that bulge gets bigger and you can’t press the trackpad at all.

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如何在具有Amazon Drive的Mac上设置Arq 5备份

arq logoArq Backup 为您的 Mac 提供了一个可以在后台运行的简单备份解决方案,不断将您的重要文件备份到您选择的云存储平台。它会在本地加密您的文件,并在您连接到 Internet 时定期备份您的更改。由于它只是一个连接到您选择的存储提供商的工具,因此您可以灵活地处理您认为合适的备份,以提供最高级别的控制和冗余。提供低成本云备份选项的最快和最简单的解决方案是 亚马逊驱动器, so I’ve chosen to use it for this tutorial, but you can connect to other cloud storage providers in very similar ways.

Let’s get started.

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是否需要在Mac Time Machine备份中添加外部硬盘驱动器?

I’ve moved my Dropbox onto an external hard drive because it’s just too big to store all the files I use regularly on my local hard drive. However, I like to keep a local backup in addition to the Dropbox backup, so I wanted to add it to my Time Machine which has more than enough room for the extra drive. Here’s how I did it in 50 seconds.

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