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Month: April 2011

Data Recovery Options for Mac Users

Posted on April 24, 2011March 29, 2024 by Tim Hannon in Backup, Data Recovery, Local Backup, Online backup, Services, Time Machine

Do you need to recover files that were deleted from a Mac’s hard drive? Here’s a quick overview of three options.

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Clean Up Your Mac Hard Drive Using OmniDiskSweeper

Posted on April 17, 2011June 20, 2019 by Tim Hannon in Computer Basics, Maintenance

Do you want to clean up your Mac hard drive? Is your hard drive nearly full and you don’t know why? OmniDiskSweeper (free) can help with both of these situations. OmniDiskSweeper will scan all files and folders on your Mac and list them by size, starting with the folders taking up the most space. This … Read more

How to Open Winmail.dat Attachments on a Mac or iOS Device

Posted on April 10, 2011February 7, 2025 by Tim Hannon in Email, Software

Did you receive an email attachment named winmail.dat or winmail? Here’s a brief explanation of what this file is and instructions for opening it. Winmail.dat files are sent by people using Microsoft Outlook as their email application. Under certain circumstances Outlook will encode attached files, like Word or PDF files, in this winmail.dat format.

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Preventive Maintenance for your Mac

Posted on April 3, 2011March 29, 2024 by Tim Hannon in Backup, Computer Basics, Local Backup, Maintenance, Software, Time Machine

Do you want to know how to perform some routine preventive maintenance on your Mac? Here’s my recommendation of helpful preventive maintenance tasks as well as instructions on how to perform these tasks. You do not need to have advanced knowledge to perform these tasks.

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