Over the past five years, Apple has switched from using disk-based hard drives to SSDs (solid-state drives) on almost every computer model they sell. From the MacBook Air and 12″ MacBook, to the newest generation of MacBook Pros, even up to their iMac and Mac Pro line of desktop computers, Apple has decided that the best choice for storage is SSDs. Also see our article Flash-based SSDs provide better, faster performance and long lifespans than disk-based hard drives, as well as near-instant computer startups, minimal application launch times, and a slimmer profile. SSDs are clearly the future of computing storage, and it’s not surprise Apple has discontinued traditional or hybrid drives for their computers. But there is a trade-off to the benefits of SSDs: GB for GB, they’re more expensive than HDDs.

Generally, you can expect to pay twice as much for the same amount of storage. Instead of raising prices, manufacturers like Apple have simple cut storage capacity. Where older devices might have had 500GB or even a terabyte worth of storage, your new MacBook Pro may only have 256GB in its place. The easy way out of this conundrum is to purchase a few external hard drives to keep with your device (perhaps an Apple-made 2TB Time Capsule). But sometimes, you don’t have the means or ability to head out and purchase one of those. If you absolutely have to keep your documents, videos, and other files on your device – or, even more likely, you have to share them with someone else online – the easiest way to do it is through zipping your files on MacOS. Zipping, or compressing, a file makes it easy to save some space on your hard drive, and also makes it easy to share those documents and folders with someone through a file sharing service such as Dropbox or Google Drive.

It’s ugly and confusing because it’s a hex ASCII password, rather than a mnemonic word or name, but it’ll definitely work. If you grab that from the old configuration and copy and paste it into the new configuration when promopted for a password to access the network, you should get in just fine, assuming they didn’t change the password too.

There's nothing worse than being in a hurry and not remembering your password. Fortunately, with Mac OS X’s built-in password manager, you can easily recover those lost passwords without having to bother with the password reset debacle.

Zipping your files can compress them down to a much smaller size, saving up to 80 percent of storage room while maintaining the original quality of the information once the file has been decompressed. Even better, you can set privacy controls to your zip files, which allows you to control who can see the information and who cannot without having to worry about sending the file over the internet. Of course, this can be pretty confusing if you’ve never compressed a file before, so let’s take a look at how it’s done. What Does Zipping and Unzipping Mean? How to create a simple key logger for mac os. “Zipping” a file simply means using a utility on your Mac to compress a file or folder down to a much smaller size, without losing any quality in the file or folder. “Zip” itself refers to the file type of a compressed file,.zip, which is supported by both MacOS and Windows, along with other operating systems such as Android. Though modern operating systems can view the contents of a zipped folder without having to unzip or decompress the files inside, you typically need to decompress the file before you can use any of the files on your machine.

So, when should and shouldn’t you zip a file? Typically, if you are trying to send someone a file over the internet, through email or other means, and the file is too large to upload to the server, you will want to make sure you have compressed the file down in size.