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We were getting many notifications from calendar. In an effort to limit them our calendar was deleted. We have a brand new time machine disk, but can’t / don’t know how to retrieve our calendar/ data. Any suggestions are most welcome. Margaret —– Margaret ... (5 Comments)

Watched the tutorial on customizing finer sidebar. I am using Catalina on my MacBook Air, and have an iPhone 8. The “cds, dvd, and iOS devices” button is checked in Finder Preferences, but nothing about that comes up in Sidebar Locations. Asked the question on ... (5 Comments)

sound from webcasts, cds, dvds, email attachments, i.e. all input sources, is sometimes tinny, muffled, or crisp. is there an equalizer app that i can interpose between any source & any output, either the mac speakesr or external speakers? —– joe c ... (1 Comment)

The college where I teach is doing online only this year. While some classes will be live via Zoom, the school has asked me to create 30-minute pre-recorded lessons as well, for the students to view on their own time. I created a Keynote presentation and recorded an audio ... (2 Comments)

I have a Keynote presentation that contains many images. Right now, I have the images saved in a folder, from which I drag them and drop them into the presentation. My question is this: once I’ve added them to the presentation, do I need to keep a copy of them in the folder ... (1 Comment)

I have a small GIF(71KB) imbedded as an element in a Keynote presentation. When I run as native presentation, the gif behaves properly. When it is exported to a movie, the gif blinks and then goes away. I have the gif set to loop. Start movie on click is not selected. Play movie ... (2 Comments)

I am following the steps in the video tutorial to reformat a USB Flash Drive (great by the way), to use as a backup. However, at the point to click on the Erase button to reformat, the options to format it to show only 5 options and APFS does not show up. Any ideas? Thank you! ... (1 Comment)

I would like to backup my iPad Pro to a USB device so I am not tied to backing up to an iMac (or other computer). The idea is to try the notion of the iPad as my only computing device. —– Rob ... (3 Comments)

In Pages, when I am in Page Layout, every time I select a new text box it arrives on the page at a default size and shape. This happens even if I just paste text to the page. Usually I need to adjust this box. Is there a way to set the default so it more closely fits my needs ... (2 Comments)

I make home videos on my mac and then I sync them to my iPad. Can I still do this on once I have downloaded Catalina? —– Sheli ... (2 Comments)

My IPad Pro 32 GB indicates that my storage is almost full, resulting in not being able to download updates or add applications. The graph showing the storage indicates that half of the storage is being used by “Other” And to a lesser degree “System”. My question is ... (1 Comment)

Gary, In reply to a question about Time Machine you said “But it is considered best practice to put all of your files in the Documents folder. That’s what it is for. That’s what I do.” In iCloud Drive > Options I can find a list of apps that store documents and ... (6 Comments)

HI, we own two iMacs which are networked in our house via Time Machine. I am the one with some smarts re the Mac environment, hence both computers are logged in under my administration name. My husband only works in MS word writing a manuscript, and we have found that when I cut ... (1 Comment)

I have a 2012 MacBook Pro Retina running Mojave. I’m looking for a suitable Monitor. I’m told I need a 2560×1600 with a mini Display Port, but this combination seems to be very unusual, and a Google search doesn’t pay attention to the 2560 x 1600 criterion. ... (4 Comments)

Hi Gary how do I save my notes from my iPhone to a jpeg or Word doc on my iMac? All I can do is copy and paste them each individually. Is some other way I can do this like select each file in notes or drag and drop? Thx your help as always. —– Tim ... (3 Comments)

I’m trying to make a cvs file for a CRM program, but all I have is a docx file to work with, will I have to download an app to make this work? Or is there a way to just use the apps that came with my iMac? —– Janice ... (4 Comments)

trying to wipe drive using disc utility when I restarted computer screen came up with a ? mark in centre mouse and keyboard don’t work —– sharyn ... (1 Comment)

I have a late-2014 Mac mini running Catalina OS. When I click on the Safari icon in the Dock the icon will bounce anywhere from 8-118 times before opening. Why does it sometimes take so long? —– Sparky ... (2 Comments)

It’s easy to change iCloud directory names, so that I won’t have 2 Documents folders, etc. on my Mac. The only problem is that they won’t stay changed. They revert automatically back to the original name almost immediately. I read somewhere that they could be ... (1 Comment)

Attempted to make a Zip file in terminal (Catalina 10.5.6 27in 4k iMac) with the zip -er command as explained in online instructions. Firstly I had difficulty in getting the path correct, placing the file on the desktop and using drag and drop worked, but not ideal. Then when ... (1 Comment)