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When using FileVault, and you are logging in, is your login password also the key that decrypts FileVault? And if that’s true, when you turn FileVault on, does it use your login password to seed the encryption? And if that is also true, does it mean that the longer and more ... (1 Comment)

Im a coach for a football team. Every day we train we plan our session in a numbers sheet. Same sheet every day. Now, instead of printing it and keeping the paper, I would like to record some statistics in the document for the remaining season. Every training we have some sort of ... (1 Comment)

I have followed the directions as best that I am able but I am still not getting the results. I am trying to install Apple Chancery such that I can use the font in pages. The font is no longer greyed out in the Font Book and I can find the Chancery font in something called ... (2 Comments)

I imported an excel file into numbers that contains data with names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. The names and addresses are all capitalized and I would like to change them to Title Case. I was able to change the case with Format/Font/Capitalization and I can see the data is ... (1 Comment)

I was ill advised not to update my computer a long time ago! Now, of course it is very out of date and I would like to update it as far as I can. It is an iMac (21.5 inch, late 2013) Processor – 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory – 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Model identifier ... (2 Comments)

I have a MacBook Pro running Catalina and a Photos library. I also have an iMac running Catalina with an empty Photos library. I want to have the same Photos library on both computers. How can I do this? I simply want the same library on both computers. —– Jack Towl ... (1 Comment)

Hi Gary I live in a large house here in the south west of England and I have been using a Time Capsule as my router together with 2 Airport Extremes and 2 Airport Express’s for quite a number of years. I have reasonable wifi but not as good as I’d like it to be. I ... (4 Comments)

Can Numbers determine the current day of the year and the remaining days in the year for a given date? Example A2 = 06/01/2021 B2 = 152 (day of the year based on cell A2) C2 = 213 (remaining days in the year based on cell A1) —– Jessica ... (1 Comment)

Keychain: I want to know why my Mac will not automatically fill in my Apple ID password when I am downloading an app from the app store, nor will does it seem to store my Apple ID password, such that I can find it when I do a search of Keychain,and, finally, when I create a new ... (3 Comments)

Hi, with failing eyesight I would like to make the blinking text cursor more prominent. I viewed Gary’s video on cursors and can change to arrow cursor but not the one I want. —– Margaret ... (4 Comments)

Appreciate the recent post regarding creating a Shortcut to show a vaccination card, thank you. Is there a way to do the same with a local-only file? I.e. no iCloudDrive and no Dropbox, the scanned file is local on iPhone only. In the action GetFile tapping to turn off ... (3 Comments)

Probably one of the most confusing and counterintuitive things that happens on my Macs takes place when I use my browser (Safari) to log into iCloud.com. It seems that the login is asking for my Apple ID and password. Auto-filling the Apple ID address, the box to enter the ... (2 Comments)

When the Time Machine drive is full and deletes the oldest stuff to make room, does it take into consideration whether you have only one backup of a file? Example: Time Machine’s oldest backup is on 1/1/2021, and on that date it backed up files A, B, and C. As time goes on, ... (1 Comment)

Is there a way to show the titles of files when I put them into the My Media section of iMovie when working on a project? This could be helpful when I shoot multiple short files at around the same time, mostly looking the same at the beginning of each clip (ex. when I video our ... (2 Comments)

My wife and I have watched the Macmost Youtube video, “How To Remove All Copies Of a File From Time Machine (#1690). We cannot find the Action command to delete all Timemachine file backups. The “Gear” does not show up. There is an “Action” menu, ... (10 Comments)

Somehow I have an icon of a hard drive named Macintosh HD on my desktop…… I do not know how it got there but can I delete it? —– Ron P ... (2 Comments)

Sir, Please help. I am writing my Ph.D Thesis. I am having problem with Table of Contents. All headings are not showing up in TOC Sidebar. Though, when I insert Table of Content on a page as Text, all heading are appearing correctly. But I need correct Sidebar for moving here and ... (3 Comments)

How good or bad is it if I keep the personal hotspot of my  iPhone 12 Pro Max “on” all the time or at least for long durations of time say more than 2 hours continuously. I assume it will drain out the battery faster and make the iPhone hot etc. How will that affect ... (3 Comments)

Hi I do a lot of repetitive tasks on a daily basis such as uploading using the Finder…. I keep on uploading from the same directory (Downloads) Can I expect to return to the last directory opened when I open the Finder? If so, why does it sometimes default to ... (2 Comments)

Is there a formula to calculate dates? For example, if you enter a start date, can you then calculate out what date it is 3 days after the start date, 10 days, 20 days? Setting up a tracking system for honeybee queen rearing. Different actions need to be taken on different days ... (1 Comment)