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.6/19/18
Last week I had a Time Machine back up fail with a Copying Error. There were no clues that I could find that indicated what had generated the error.
After a couple of days, tearing my proverbial hair out, I found that Time Machine had failed because of duplicate folder names ... (1 Comment)
6/18/18
I know, you just click on them to open. But for some reason in the last 6 months or so, something has changed.
Most jpg, pdf, mp3 I receive in my mac mail, and sent from Apple devices, refuse to open. The say in a small window under the icon “downloading” but they ... (1 Comment)
6/16/18
Using one Apple Extreme wi fi router as Base unit and a second Apple Extreme (in the Extended function mode) for adequate wi fi coverage.
I Set up the Base unit with a password-protected “Guest Network”.
Do I need to enable the “Guest” option in the ... (1 Comment)
6/15/18
sometimes but more so lately, the items i am saving to my desktop are not appearing or they might appear days later. when i go to save the items again, it asks if i want it to overwrite the items so it seems they are there.
they do however appear in iCloud where i end up ... (1 Comment)
6/15/18
In order to indicate the last version of a Numbers sheet (latest version) I like to add a (changeable) date field either in the header or footer field
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Loek
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6/13/18
I have this long document. I wish to find all paragraphs formatted in style “Normal” and replace the style with “Body” without changing the text as such.
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Carlos Ramos
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6/13/18
I usually install app just to try. And I cannot help me with that junk the apps left. Is it better to backup before install the app and revert the system with time machine after the trial? Is there a easy way to do this? Just recover the part the app mess.
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Marçal ... (4 Comments)
6/10/18
A while back, Gary presented a topic on MacOS, where you could create folder in Mac OS Safari to place important MacMost topics. Can you create a folder in IOS Safari to do the same thing? Also if the feature does exist, would that feature appear cross platform, meaning would ... (3 Comments)
6/10/18
I have always installed software updates on all my Mac devices as soon as they were provided. And over the years have noticed a trend of decreasing speed and efficiencies following the installation of these updates, especially with the system updates on my MacBook Pro! Sadly, ... (3 Comments)
6/8/18
On my iPhone SE,’ iOS 11, I don’t normally answer “No Caller ID” calls so would like to ignore them when phone rings, instead of rushing to answer them.
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Robin dos Bosques
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6/8/18
I want to change the Mail icon in the dock to a Canadian Flag. I tried what you explained in changing the picture of a file and it works. When I tried to change the picture of the Mail icon by replacing it with a Canadian Flag, didn’t work; nothing ... (1 Comment)
6/7/18
When I try to put my own alert audio files into the System>Library>Sounds>, it won’t allow me to paste any audio files into that folder, like in previous OS’s. How do I get my custom alert sounds on MacOS High Sierra?
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Dexter
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6/7/18
I have many foreign fonts that came with my Mac, which I will never use. I also use Font Book to help me find the perfect font for the job I am doing, but I need to trudge through many useless (to me) fonts. Is there a way to delete fonts I don’t want from my Mac, and from ... (2 Comments)
6/1/18
I enjoy your videos, Gary!
I’m creating a rubric in Numbers for grading my students’ projects.
For each topic on the rubric, I have a row of 5 checkboxes representing Excellent, Very Good, Good, Marginal, Weak and None. I have a score cell that follows the checkboxes ... (3 Comments)
5/31/18
I have a Table with the first header column with the months of the year. The first header row has the years: 2015, 2016… Is there a convenient way to plot the cell values in a single line graph starting with January 2015 to the end of 2017. To recap. One header column ... (1 Comment)
5/31/18
Have recently acquired an EHD to move my Aperture photo library to so as to free up storage space on my iMac. This has been done. I now realize that once I delete Aperture from my Mac it will no longer be backed up by Time machine. Thus, I need to back up my EHD. I am hoping ... (2 Comments)
5/30/18
Hi Gary,
You may have covered this before but I can’t come across it.
I am losing the will to live in finding a suitable way to manage my contacts and their personal information, such as address emails, phone numbers and notes on both my iPad and my MacBook.
I have downloaded ... (4 Comments)
5/29/18
Trying to use the OR logical operator in SUMIF, for example
SUMIF(OR($H=”I0000″,$H=”I0001)”),$J)
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Tim Swaty
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5/26/18
Hi Gary,
I have heard That I can unlock my desktop iMacWith my Apple watch.Would you please explain how do this. I have the latest model iMac and iWatch Thank you.David L
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Mr David J Leyshon
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5/26/18
Hi Gary,
I have heard That I can unlock my desktop iMacWith my Apple watch.Would you please explain how do this. I have the latest model iMac and iWatch Thank you.David L
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Mr David J Leyshon
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