It’s not so easy to fill up that storage space on your iPad. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac One of iOS’s most ridiculous omissions is the lack of any way to create a local folder in the Files app.

Linux can support these workflows, but the experience is less uniform. Sandboxing can restrict access to external drives. Applications sometimes disagree on where data should live. Symlinks, bind ...

Q: What’s the best way to get my thousands of photos and videos on Google Photos downloaded to my computer? A: The spectacular evolution of smartphone photography and videography has led to a problem ...

In an era where computers are at the center of nearly everything we do, human beings are generating a truly unfathomable number of digital files. We snap pictures and videos that fill our smartphones, ...

Cloud storage is better, faster, and more affordable per gigabyte than ever before. But it’s not the best way to go for everything, nor can it completely replace local storage and backups. In fact, ...