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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2/13/18
In TextEdit Markup using the Shapes tool, the arrow colour is always white and it seems there is no way to change that to any other colour. Is that correct? —– Berty ... (2 Comments)
2/13/18
I am trying to decide whether to invest in a 3rd party backup/restore (eg Carbon Copy Cleaner) or just stick to the inbuilt Disk Utility. Any views? —– Tony Staples ... (3 Comments)
2/9/18
I do The NY Times mini crossword on my iPad Pro every morning. I access it by opening The NY Times App. If I complete the crossword on my IPad Pro when Mike opens the app on his IPad Air the crossword comes up completed just as I did it. Same thing happens if he completes first ... (3 Comments)
2/8/18
After viewing Gary’s latest video “Getting started with Time Machine”, I have several questions. I just used used a restore from iCloud backup to setup a new iPad, in addition I used a manual backup of iTunes Media Library to setup iTunes on a new iMac. ... (3 Comments)
2/8/18
How do I view the full header of an email received and discover what email address it really came from using Apple Mail 10.3? —– Eric ... (1 Comment)
2/8/18
I have a number of folders that I would like to rename the contents based on creation date. For example in my pets folder rename as Pets1 the earliest and Pets598 the newest. If I select sort them in finder based on creation date and then rename them all using the rename function ... (2 Comments)
2/7/18
I am looking at LibreOffice to use for a database system. It’s free. Does anyone know of a free DB that can be put on a server and accessed by a few different people? The DB will probably have 500 records, 6 tables, 4 forms. Expect total size to be less than 1 meg. So ... (1 Comment)
2/7/18
Hello how to batch change of date of creation based on file name? I have movies exported from iMovie I named them like this 2014.11.11.0955 —– VoDo ... (1 Comment)
2/7/18
I deleted photos from my MBP and an SD card. Please suggest software. There are many out there but I trust MacMost. —– Greg Allen ... (1 Comment)
2/6/18
I find interesting to review, from time to time, the memories created automatically by Photos with the contents of my library and play them as a slideshow. However, for me, it’s a pity that the title [location and date] of the memory are showing on every photo of that ... (2 Comments)
2/5/18
I’m trying to save important emails, but want them off of my computer. I would like to put them on an external drive, but what I’ve tried isn’t working because once I get export them there , it can’t be opened. I’m running the latest update of macOS ... (3 Comments)
2/4/18
I would like to reduce the size of photos to send them as an e-mail. I have an iMac 21.5 inch model MD093x/A. It is El Capitan. I use MS Outlook 2011 for Mac – Home and Business for e-mail. I have to export the photos from “Photos” to “Pictures” in ... (1 Comment)
2/3/18
A friend wrote me a couple of days ago and wondered why she hadn’t had any emails from me. I have a group I call “regulars” and her name had disappeared from the list! I went into contacts to correct that, and although her name was not on my regulars list, in ... (4 Comments)
2/3/18
I want to count the number of times a word appears in one column, depending on a particular word in another column i.e. how many times does CASH appear in ‘Payment’ column, when ‘January’ appears in the Month column. I have tried using Countif & ... (2 Comments)
2/3/18
I would like to create a service, which can compress the PDF documents easily using Automator rather than using third-party applications. —– Kishore Kumar ... (1 Comment)
2/1/18
How do I make Helvetica Neue Light Italic the default font for composing in Mail —– Raiford Gardiner ... (3 Comments)
2/1/18
In earlier versions of MacMail one could bounce back an email as being an “invalid address, or not found.” Apple has removed this function, or hid it amazingly well. Is there a way to do that? – with HTML or somehow return an email as “not deliverable, ... (1 Comment)
2/1/18
I have signed up for 1Password at least twice and paid for it but have had difficulty using the app and have cancelled twice. Only online support available and that has been marginal. Can someone recommend another password program? —– Keith M Rivard ... (1 Comment)
2/1/18
How Do I Stop Junk Mail From Mainly Women Offering Their Services?I am receiving about 50 e mails a day in my junk mail , I have been to my server site to update mail settings but they still keep coming, —– Derek ... (1 Comment)
1/31/18
I have a budget with dates of items purchased. I have tried many different ways to sort the amounts spent for each year using “sumif” or “sumif & year”. I keep getting either syntax errors or not enough arguments for the formula. This should be pretty ... (3 Comments)