Domain Name Servers (DNS) bind the internet together. They match machine-usable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with human-readable domain names. It's the internet's equivalent of the phone book. But, while ...

Robocopy is a built-in Windows 11 tool that allows you to copy files from one place to another. It’s a command-line tool, ...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS. There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two ...

Spotlight is Apple's smart search indexer for macOS. Here's how to use its metadata utilities to get more information about your documents. Spotlight runs in the background on your Mac or iOS device ...

Apple was the first computer company to make networked file sharing easy. Decades after introducing that feature on the Mac, it’s less important in an era of cloud storage. Unless you’re on a ...

Windows 11’s updated Windows Backup makes it easy to transfer files and settings to a new PC over a local network with secure ...

Quick access gives you faster navigation to your most frequent folders and files, and here's how to customize the feature on Windows 10. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Device in Disarray? How to Use the Files App on Your iPhone or iPad The Files app offers a convenient way to work with your files and connect to online services and external drives. Here's how to ...

How to Use the Scp Command to Securely Send a File from Your Desktop to a Server Your email has been sent Learn how to use the scp command to transfer files securely with this step-by-step tutorial by ...

Microsoft is getting more aggressive about insisting that you use its OneDrive cloud for your Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 files. If you'd prefer to keep those files out of the cloud, follow these ...

How to Use the Search Tool in Windows 10 File Explorer Your email has been sent Learn how you can tweak your searches from File Explorer to narrow or expand the results. In Windows 10, you can search ...