MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

The MacMost Question and Answer Forum is a place where you can ask how-to questions about your Mac, iPhone, iPad and other Apple products. MacMost specializes in tutorials, tips and techniques of the “how-to” variety, as opposed to “fix-it” questions that are more about something not working as expected.


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4/19/17
How do I factory reset an iMac G5? —– ILAN ... (1 Comment)
4/18/17
I am trying to attach a pdf which is saved on my macbook pro to an email. I want to attach it and not embed it into the email. —– Bev ... (3 Comments)
4/16/17
I recently watched your clip ‘Maximizing Windows On a Mac (#1363)’ and I LOVE this – I spend ages maximising/minimising windows to be able to see multiple things at once of my screen and this is going to be a time saver. Love it. The only thing is that a lot of ... (2 Comments)
4/15/17
Hi Gary, I am using Sierra (10.12.4) on a MacBook Pro (mid 2014). I have enabled File Vault. I have some small yet sensitive spreadsheets( ... (3 Comments)
4/15/17
I have “My Photo Stream” checked on both my iPhone and my iMac. But photos are not coming to the Mac. I am running iOS 10.3.1 on my phone and version 10.12.4 on my Mac. But I do not see the photos being moved. I am on my home wi-fi network. Please help and thanks ... (5 Comments)
4/14/17
If I engage Desktop & Documents to iCloud on my Mac at home and on my Mac at school, will those folders appear as different sets on the iCloud Drive or will they appear also just on folder? What if I use spaces to create several different desktops one each Different Mac? ... (3 Comments)
4/13/17
I am putting my toes in the water of teaching guitar lessons and have the Numbers program. I would like to use it to make a receipt for any future students I have. Thank you for your time and the energy you put into this. —– Trevor Marty ... (2 Comments)
4/12/17
I have a home theater with a 120” screen and a ceiling mounted high def projector. I use the “L5 Remote” app on an old 4th Gen iPod Touch to control 8 pieces of video and sound equipment. It works great! I spent hours programming the L5 app, and I have the old iPod Touch ... (1 Comment)
4/11/17
Although I have iCloud storage it is my understanding that if I delete photos off of my phone that they go bye bye in my iCloud storage that I am paying for. Assuming that this is true, I want to move my photos and videos to my Seagate external hard drive and also ensure that ... (4 Comments)
4/9/17
Measured by arm swing, actual foot step or GPS? —– Jo Hessinger ... (1 Comment)
4/7/17
I am currently struggling to construct an overall archive in my Documents folder for many years’ worth of emails (already in various Mail mailboxes), text documents (Pages and other word-processing documents, PDFs, research material (including scanned newspaper and magazine ... (1 Comment)
4/6/17
I have over 1,000 images I would like to remove the back ground on them. I know how to do it one by one. Is there a better way, faster way maybe drag and drop and let some app do it way? —– David Christensen ... (1 Comment)
4/5/17
I have 345 fonts installed on my Mac, but only 131 show up in the fonts menu in Pages. If I use the “Show fonts” menu (cmd+T), all 345 fonts are there and I can use them. How do I get all the fonts to show up in the menu in the Inspector ... (3 Comments)
4/5/17
Hi, I am after a bit of help to write a formula as the new update for numbers has my existing formula now coming up with errors. I was using the look up function to find e.g.: look up ( apple a1, in table 1 a1:a30, to return a $ f1:30) this was bringing back a correct $ and if ... (1 Comment)
4/4/17
Is there any way I can disable logging in with my password in Safari>Preferences>Passwords. Many times I need to find a password, and it’s a pain to have to log in with my lengthy PW. Stan G (Patreon) —– Stan Greenberg ... (1 Comment)
4/4/17
Over the years I would have installed iTunes on multiple laptops and computers (both PC and Mac). Sometimes these computers would have crashed and I would not have been able to uninstall iTunes. As a result, I have now used up 4 out of the limit of 5 installations whereas I ... (2 Comments)
4/2/17
I use Sierra with a 2010 MacBook Pro and want to sync Contacts, Calendar, and Reminders with my iPhone SE. And how do I get photos onto my iPhone from my laptop? —– Anthony Porter ... (3 Comments)
4/2/17
I am trying to turn ON private browsing on my iPad Air 2 and on my iPhone 6. They are both using iOS 10.2.1. I read the User’s Manual and my devices do not have the word “Private” anywhere on the screen after I click on the double-square icon in ... (1 Comment)
4/1/17
Using a Mac Pro, late 2013, laptop, O.S. v10.12.4 Sierra Is it possible to access – to check / confirm – existing contents of clipboard before such as potentially ” overwriting ” and losing something important, before pasting in an email, copied details / ... (3 Comments)
3/30/17
Just bought a brand new iPhone from Verizon. I could not remember my Apple ID on my computer so they arbitrarily insisted on giving me a new one for the phone. Now that I am home and can look up my Apple ID how do I change the one on my new iPhone to match the one on my ... (3 Comments)