Apple stopped supporting the Hierarchical File System (HFS) with the release of Mac OS 8.1 in 1998, replacing it with an improved version, dubbed HFS+ and also known as Mac OS Extended.

If you are struggling to get your Mac-formatted drive to work on your Windows machine, here's a guide to help you read Mac-formatted drives on Windows.

The new Apple File System announced at WWDC highlights how the company is planning for the future. Here's a look under the hood at what the company will use to replace HFS+ on Macs, iOS, Apple ...

In addition to the file systems listed above that you can use to format your drives with, Mac OS X has various levels of support for the following file systems: HFS: the original Mac file system ...

What is Apple File System (APFS)? Apple File System or APFS, is Apple’s new file system set to replace the current and now thirty year old HFS file system.

The HFS file system is capable of very long file names. When such a file name is presented to an application using the Navigation Services interface, returning a FSSpec (File System Spec), the ...

Apple has announced that a new file system, APFS, is included in the developer preview of macOS Sierra and will become the Mac’s default file system in late 2017. But what does that mean to the rest ...

The current file system, HFS+, is starting to show its age. At WWDC 2016, its successor was finally born.

Apple’s original Hierarchical File System (HFS) is more than 30 years old, launched way back in 1985 and followed up by the currently-used HFS+ file system in 1998.

In the excitement of a new file system on the Mac platform (and being a much less knowledgeable computing enthusiast than I was 10 or 20 years ago), I converted my Time Machine partition on ...