Articles tagged as “macos”

​ Lately I'm also running macOS virtualized for testing various apps. After some heavy usage the same problem popped up: the .vmdk uses way too much space on my quite small 256GB SSD. Currently is at around 70GB. The process is similar to what I did on Windows and Linux i.e. write a null file that is erased at the end ...

I'm not really sure why taking screenshots in macOS defaults to PNG file format. I just googled this and the "answer" was: MacOS captures screenshots using PNG as the default image format, which provides lossless compression and preserves image quality while creating relatively small files. OK - I can understand ...