Hello and welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. We hope you had a great Thanksgiving! This week we've got more questions from readers, such as using Target Disk Mode, moving ...

Addressing Apple Target Disk Mode security concerns Apple's Target Disk Mode is useful for troubleshooting, but it does bypass the file security offered in OS X, which may be a concern for some people ...

"This makes no sense. Holding down the T key on computers that support Target Disk Mode puts the computer into that mode before it tries to load an operating system; it should make no difference what ...

Target Disk Mode isn’t a new technology, but the fact that you can now transfer files using Thunderbolt 3 is new. Target Disk Mode allows you to quickly share files between two MacBook Pros using ...

January 11, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Mac OS X only: If you need to transfer very large files from one Mac to another, instead of waiting for the ...

A reader recently contacted us with a question regarding her decision to recycle an older iMac computer. She wanted to know how she could clear/reformat the hard drive, but didn't have the disks that ...

Reader Barry Wallack would like to take advantage of the wonder that is FireWire to use another Mac’s hard drive as a local volume. He writes: I am trying to connect two Macs together via a FireWire ...

FireWire target disk mode has saved my bacon countless times. If you’re not familiar with FireWire target disk mode it transforms a Mac equipped with a FireWire port (either 400 or 800) into an ...

A feature used to transfer files between two Macs directly cabled via FireWire or Thunderbolt. Booting one of the Macs with the T key held down starts the computer in Target Disk Mode (TDM), and its ...