Posts Tagged 'Mac'

How to Recover Corrupt Word Documents on Mac

Microsoft Word is one of the most popular word processing programs in the world. Because of this, Microsoft has ensured that Word documents can be created and accessed even if you are using a Mac. However, much like Word documents created on Windows, Word documents in Mac can be corrupted. Word documents are a convenient way to transfer and transmit data. Sharing a Word document over e-mail or transferring it to another computer with the use of external storage devices is a common way...

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Is It Possible to Back Up Both Mac and Windows Systems to the Same External Hard Drive?

It is well-known that Mac and Windows uses different file system format. Therefore, many users wonder whether it's possible to back up both Mac and Windows systems to the same hard drive. This post will look at this question to expose the answer. As we all know, the native file system in Mac OS is Hierarchical File System (HFS), and in Windows, it is NTFS. Mac is able to read the NTFS drive data, but unable to write to it. Yet, Windows is totally incapable of no matter reading or writing...

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4 Solutions to “The backup volume is read only” Error when Using Time Machine on Mac

Mac users must be familiar with Time Machine, which is an excellent inbuilt backup tool on Mac system. But, Time Machine backup can fail, too. Now, this post will look at the "The backup volume is read only" error when using Time Machine and offer 4 solutions. Time Machine is an admittedly handy and easy backup application for Mac users. Nevertheless, similar to the other backup software, Time Machine can be subject to errors and failures as well. For instance, the "The backup volume is read...

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