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.5/26/18
So far, I have 2FA set up for Google and my iCloud account. On another site I visited, someone recommended Authy as a more secure alternative to having your code sent to you over SMS. The fact that Authy is free troubles me.
The developer has a very professional web site, etc., ... (6 Comments)
5/25/18
I am trying to print info to 3×5 cards. Front Only, Front and Back. Not sure what program and settings to use. Vertical or horizontal layout? Can I just put the 3×5 cards in the printer? I’d like to use this for flash cards in addition to study ... (2 Comments)
5/24/18
The issue is Apple Mail was unable to verify the identity of the server”pop3.knology.net”.
My operating system was updated from Mavericks to High Sierra and the Apple email at present is functionally useless.
Customer service with WOW cable is out of their experience ... (1 Comment)
5/24/18
I want to get most of my photos off my phone, IPad and the cloud and have a copy only my computer. It seems as if I delete them from the phone or IPad they reappear unless I also delete them from the cloud. Is there an easier way to clean up my photos?
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Larry
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5/21/18
I have bought a new MacBook Pro and am giving my old early 2011 MacBook Pro to My daughter I don’t have the disks for my old one?
How do I do this please?
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Matt Cooke
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5/21/18
Hi Gary,
If you have answered this before, I apologize ahead of time. I would like to ‘digitize’ my music CD collection – around 100 CD’s. I want to copy the music to an external hard drive so as to not take up space on my computer HD (and glut my iTunes ... (2 Comments)
5/20/18
Hi Gary,
because of security concerns I want to set up Apple Mail to use always plain-text instead of rich-text oder HTML for presenting incoming mails.
How can I do this with Apple Mail?
Are there any workarounds or shell commands?
By now I don’t want to switch to a ... (1 Comment)
5/19/18
When I have pop ups with different lists for cells, ie: Groceries, Auto, Insurance, at some point I enter something wrong like “gr” and it stay in the pop up list. How can I delete and/or edit that pop up?
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Greg
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5/19/18
I get a lot of spam and I notice many from Bill, Fred, Edwin, Betty, etc. I’ve researched and Hasselblad is the only one-worded name that’s legit. I want to eliminate (delete) names that have one word.
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John
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5/18/18
So in the screenshot attached here. I would like to collect all working hours that belong to a month into a single cell.
soo I want to search for a certain year-month and collect those dates and summaries those in a single cell belonging to a month.
I’m not sure where to ... (3 Comments)
5/17/18
I have several desktops in iMac. They continually rearrange the order in random fashion. I want these desktops set in order. My 4th desktop is always in the 4th position from left to right.
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Rocky Rodriguez
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5/17/18
I have taken a photo that has a pole in the background that extends into the sky. I want to remove the pole and replace with sky.
Thanks so much
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Darla Smedley
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5/14/18
Hi Gary I found your session on how to change a folder appearance great. Emoji etc = fun. But for the life of me I cannot get the folder appearance to change to an image. All I can have is the Preview icon. Tried jpg, png, pdf. And other than frustrating, it is a real shame, as ... (2 Comments)
5/14/18
Having just been switched to NBN and using Telstra technicolor DJA0230TLS. wifi is okay. Network preference pane shows wifi but no ethernet listed. ethernet cable is connected from router to imac. If I switch over to windows bootcamp ethernet is working fine. Any suggestions ... (2 Comments)
5/14/18
I have a numbers spread sheet, col A date, col D number 1. I have to collect the number of days (1’s) for 12 month period – Jan 1 to Dec 31. I am getting an error message that says not formatted correctly. I can attach the file of the spreadsheet if that ... (7 Comments)
5/13/18
Hello, I have a tricky one for ya:
I use the Canadian Multi language keyboard as I need to type in French and English, and I need quick access to accents. In this case, my ? key is found under SHIFT + 6.
Now, that being said, I want to use the shortcut for help (Command + ?). If ... (1 Comment)
5/11/18
I have recently upgraded my 2012 iMac from Yosemite to Sierra and find that in every single folder I have opened the underlying grid that files normally align to has changed.
I mostly arrange my files manually, in associated bunches in their containing folder, and use the ‘Snap ... (2 Comments)
5/11/18
Where do I download a poster I got from your site a while ago called: Get The Most From iCloud” ? My classes are interested in obtaining it.
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Shirley
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5/10/18
I have cell B6 which has Vehicle Registration Number in. Example: CE63ANX. The spec type is 6. There are 7 different specs and each has a different colour to indicate vehicle Max Train Weight.
I have a lookup formula that looks for that vehicle reg in another table in a separate ... (2 Comments)
5/7/18
I’ve deleted an App from the Applications folder using “AppCleaner” (removing the App and it’s associated files), but it still shows in Launchpad as a generic icon with a question mark on it. How do I get rid of this “ghost” icon?
Running El ... (6 Comments)
