Apple made SMB (Server Message Block, the industry-standard file-sharing protocol primarily associated with Windows) the default in OS X 10.9 Mavericks. In practical terms, the most likely scenario ...

The Apple Filing Protocol is a veteran of the Mac operating system, originally based on AppleTalk, later TCP/IP. It was not only intended for classic MacOS, but was also integrated by Apple into ...

The Apple Filing Protocol was the original network file sharing technology in Apple products, dating back to the classic Mac OS. Even though connecting to network shares with Microsoft’s SMB ...

Apple already announced that its AFP client had been deprecated, in its enterprise release notes for macOS Sequoia 15.5 last month. MacRumors reports that, starting with macOS 27, Time Capsule backups ...

Two patches, 1721 and 1722, deal with the Apple Filing Protocol and fix a buffer overflow flaw that could allow unauthorized software to gain access and run.

Even after Apple moves on, you’d be able to mount and access an HFS+ Time Machine volume on a Mac with an older version of macOS, of course. This Mac 911 article is in response to a question ...