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.1/29/22
I have a membership list in Numbers. I would like to include some of the information in an email but not in Numbers format (most recipients are non technical and not Mac users). So I would have to send it as text. How do I create a text file of some or all of the contents of a ... (2 Comments)
1/29/22
I have a user account which was setup by accident and contains 75gb of data. This data is copied to an external drive but I want to delete the user account. Cannot figure out how to do this or if even possible.
Hard drive is getting full and I need to delete the unused user a/c ... (6 Comments)
1/28/22
My Time Capsule no longer works. Is there a better device for backups? My WD MyPassport for Mac failed, too.
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Linda M
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1/28/22
If I create a numbers spreadsheet listing 100s of customer purchases totalling how much each one has spent over time … can I make numbers automatically extend the list and rank those customers from top to bottom based on $$$ spent?
I wanna see a ranking of customers ... (2 Comments)
1/28/22
When I first got my new MacBook Pro a few weeks ago, the log in screen had the pink Monterey background. That background has changed, and I cannot get it to return to the original background. I spent an hour at the Genius Bar yesterday, and the tech was unable to change it as ... (1 Comment)
1/27/22
I cannot dispose of an error: 502 Bad Gateway so I am blocked from the Apple.com.
I am prevented from connecting to Apple.com by a 502 bad gateway error. This prevents me from using Apple devices and programs.
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DD
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1/27/22
What would be the best way to have a Hard copy of all my Pictures in my hand. I currently use iCloud and have a backup on a time machine
But I also want something that I can have on a photo stick of some kind
what would be my best option.
App: Photos
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Joe S
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1/26/22
Do iPhones, iPads fetch new iOS updates somatically? I am a relatively new user of Apple devices. I checked all my settings in system preference, and they are all set for automatic updates, download iOS updates, and install iOS updates. However, they never do when it comes to new ... (1 Comment)
1/26/22
Hello Gary, I’m an excel user who is migrating to Numbers. I love it. However, in Excel if I need to apply a formula to a sequence of cells below it or even if I need to copy the data in a cell to a sequence of cells below, then I can select the days cell and double click. It ... (5 Comments)
1/25/22
I would like to go paperless with all of my financial records. I’m currently saving them to iCloud drive. Is just having the documents in iCloud drive enough? What do you recommend?
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Phyllis Steele
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1/24/22
I have a friend with a 2020 Mac mini w 500 GB storage. She is out of hard drive space. We have deleted so many items and have only cleared up 12 GB. She uses about 200 GB, her husband uses 150 GB and the rest (150 GB) is “other” (under the “manage your ... (7 Comments)
1/24/22
I watched your tutorial “200 Mac Tips” and you showed how to edit ‘Previous Recipients’ on a Mac but how do you do that on an iPad (iOS 15.1)
I use Mail on MacBook Air for my main email a/c but use a secondary Gmail a/c on the iPad. I have a few addresses ... (1 Comment)
1/22/22
How to keep dark mode dark on Mac?
I like to always use dark mode on my Mac day and night, and have set Dark in Settings/Appearance.
Yet too often than not I get the white background in various Apps like Mail, Numbers, Safari, Pages irritating my eyes even at the minimal ... (2 Comments)
1/21/22
I recently purchased a new iMac 24″ with 16GB of memory and 1TB of storage. I am supremely confused regarding the two USB-C and two Thunderbolt ports in the rear of the machine. I am elderly and not too computer savvy. About the most taxing task I do is edit short drone ... (1 Comment)
1/21/22
Can I assign a specific sound to a specific email sender? I am using a iPhone 12 mini + 15.2.1 and I use gmail.
I have a specific email for work and I need to be able to get them as soon as they come in. Right now I have to look every time any email comes in.
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How ... (1 Comment)
1/20/22
If I create a sound effect in iMovie can I just grab that one effect and not the whole soundtrack or dialog track?
Why I am trying to export a sound I created without importing the entire sound track or dialog track is this. I want to share my sounds individually with a person ... (1 Comment)
1/20/22
I have downloaded from external app a driving duration report. It gives me the values only in for example 01:12
Which would be 1 hour and 12 min. I would like to SUM all the columns to get the monthly driving report in hours, minutes, sec.
When I choose in Numbers under ... (4 Comments)
1/20/22
Ever since I upgraded to Monterey, I’m having a terrible time with searches in Mac Mail. It wants to search only the selected mailbox, and I don’t know how to tell it to search all mailboxes. Sometimes when I type in the search window, I see “Search All ... (1 Comment)
1/19/22
Is there any way to select a whole column of cells. Say “Column A” has 200 cells going down to the bottom of the page. Each cell has a different result and different formulas in each cell to get those individual results. I want to select all 200 cells of “Column ... (3 Comments)
1/18/22
I am trying to hide the toolbar in the application TextEdit and I can’t seem to figure out how. There is not a menu bar command for this as far as I can tell and I don’t remember what I did before to get it to hide itself.
I am talking about hiding the place where the ... (1 Comment)
