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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12/7/17
Since upgrading to High Sierra, Safari has a number of problems, so I have gone to Chrome. I have not been able to access all of my bookmarks I have established in Safari. Is there a way to move them over? —– Dick Vitales ... (5 Comments)
12/7/17
About 2 weeks ago my phone started taking a lot longer to come to a 100% charge. I monitored it her today. It went from 8% to into the 70% pretty quickly. I started monitoring more closely and saw this: Delta % ... (1 Comment)
12/7/17
I bought a ringtone for my iPhone 5SE iOS 11.2 which appears in the list of sounds on iTunes but does not work on the phone. This disappeared with a previous update. I read your instructions to get a new ringtone but it doesn’t work with the already purchased tone. Help ... (8 Comments)
12/6/17
I would like to rename a shortcut app that takes me to a specific website. In this case it is the My Vote website for Wisconsin. The app is now named ‘Home’ because that is the screen that first pops up. Thanks! —– Cindy ... (2 Comments)
12/6/17
I am trying to delete some old albums off my iPad Mini 2, remnants the the switchover from Photo Stream to Photo Library. It is a concern now because the performance on my iPad has gone to pot and I am hoping recovering of a gig of memory might help. I have tried: 1. Directly ... (2 Comments)
12/6/17
It seems strange in this CR article that an iPhone X with 64 GB total storage only has 29.5 available storage while an 64 GB iPhone 8 has 59.6 available. (CR’s definition of available storage: Storage that is left available to the user once the operating system and applications ... (1 Comment)
12/5/17
I have a few separate tables with one sheet per table. Can I merge/move the sheets onto one table? —– Bob ... (2 Comments)
12/5/17
I work on a Mac Pro [6-Core Xeon with 16 GB ram] with 2 monitors : LG UltraFine as main display connected to the display port in “landscape mode” PHL 272S4L Philips rotated 90 in “portrait mode” / mirroring off / resolution 1440 x 2560 @ 60 Hz, connected via HDMI. I ... (2 Comments)
12/4/17
1) Is iCloud Drive (Archive) folder the same as Local Folder? 2) Is iCloud Drive a Storage or a Sync application? That is, are the actual files in the cloud or on my Mac? Or both? 3) Please comment on when to ✓”Optimize Mac Storage.” —– Stan ... (7 Comments)
12/4/17
I am trying to print address labels (not return labels) from my contact list in Pages using Avery Address labels —– Alex Konczey ... (3 Comments)
12/1/17
I have files all over the place – iCloud, dropbox and on the Mac. Is there any easy way I can move a desktop file to a folder without opening a lot of stuff up? Is Quicksilver the best program to do this? Any better way? Much thanks, Dally Messenger —– Dally ... (1 Comment)
11/30/17
If you lose your phone no one has access to your phone because it is locked. Only your home screen would show and is there a way to show you name and another phone number to call so that person can let you know they found your phone. —– harryjr ... (2 Comments)
11/30/17
Trying to compare similar shots on one screen to decide which one to use. —– Magda K. ... (2 Comments)
11/30/17
Sorry to bother you again Gary, but there seems to be lots of people having problems with what I asked you about earlier, it called the JS: Cryptonight, I have tried multiple scans with different antivirus, AVG, AVAST, and both find it, and you can’t get rid of it, you can ... (7 Comments)
11/30/17
I texted my wife’s phone and she never got them. We later realized they had gone to her iPad, instead of her phone. How can I be sure my texts go to my wife’s iPhone? —– Jack Weibel ... (1 Comment)
11/27/17
I am on a website that makes custom license plates. All you do is upload your photo. Two Questions: 1) how does one do that on OS 10.13? In other words, the website says select a file. But Photos will not let me select. Why does Apple not allow a person to go to the photos ... (1 Comment)
11/26/17
My wife’s and I got rid of our land line phone and purchased iPhones, but now when at home this is the only way to contact us and the problem is that since we are both teachers we silence out notifications or volumes ring tones when teaching, but the forget to turn them back on ... (2 Comments)
11/25/17
VPN is the hot item these days and I’m trying to figure out if my humble browsing at home and the grocery story warrant my purchasing yet another widget/network/gizmo. I don’t travel much, very rarely, and realize my local Safeway may be THE ONE where my data could be ... (1 Comment)
11/23/17
I have an app on my launchpad that does not respond to the normal methods of deletion, i.e drag and drop into trash, delete from list of apps, etc. Any suggestions? —– Earl CAmpbell ... (1 Comment)
11/20/17
My iPad and iPhone mail work together well for b I got the same. But somewhere way back when…. when I first set up my phone I remember not wanting my phone mail and my iMac not wanting to be in sync. Times have changed and I would like all of them to be the same. I can ... (1 Comment)