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.12/3/21
Mac Mail doesn’t seem to respect when I tag an email as junk. The darn junk mail still keeps coming. Also, when I tag an email as NOT junk it keeps going to the junk mailbox. Is there a way to fix this?
it’s frustrating to have to keep scanning my junk mail folders ... (2 Comments)
12/2/21
I need to find a formula that will give me the value of a cell in another table. And there are four criteria that needs to be met. so the user will enter the age, gender, tobacco use and a product type. Once those four choices are made the formula should give us a dollar amount ... (1 Comment)
12/2/21
I want to copy a full-sized raw file from Photos to a Mac folder (downloads or pictures)?
I copied a raw photo into Photos to edit with an app. The photo is still in raw format (36 MB) but will only copy back to the Mac as a jpeg (3.6 MB) file. I want it in raw format to edit ... (2 Comments)
11/29/21
Can I use my bluetooth Magic Trackpad and a bluetooth mouse on the same Macbook Pro?
So …… 2 bluetooth devices on the same Macbook Pro at the same time
Is that possible?
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Roger
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11/29/21
How can I disable Time Machine local snapshots?
How can I disable local snapshots in Time Machine? They use my storage and I’d like to turn them off. Deleting them via Terminal does help, but it’s not practical to do it manually all the time. sudo tmutil disablelocal ... (4 Comments)
11/28/21
Hi Gary! I thought I would really like the new Safari Tab Groups functionality. I like grouping news sites I subscribe to like National News, Local News, Industry News, etc. I thought tab groups would perfectly work for this scenario. However what I find is when I bring the ... (3 Comments)
11/28/21
My main computer is an iMac running Big Sur. I use Apple Mail to access my email (gmail) and have saved emails in folders. I also use a MacBook Air, iPad and iPhone all with Apple Mail apps. I would like to be able to see all my mail folders on those devices as well as on my ... (5 Comments)
11/28/21
I listened to your recommendation about Spam. Today my primary email is xxxx@live.com and that is listed as my Appple id. I have an email account in icloud that I never use. I use mail as the client with the 1 live.com and two gmail accounts. I’m swamped with Spam on ... (1 Comment)
11/23/21
I want to buy the AirPods Pro, but I first want to know the following: Can I use them as a microphone when I record a video on quicktime player? Is the quality of the microphone good enough for video recording? Can I take the airpod and attached it for example to my top button of ... (1 Comment)
11/22/21
I have been frustrated using Instagram from my iPhone. When I try and post a horizontal photo – it cuts off the sides of the photo and often people are cut out of the photo. Is there a way to have the photo be shown as is without being automatically cropped?
The people I ... (1 Comment)
11/21/21
Is there a way to erase an Airport disk without configuring it into a network?
I have replaced the Airport with a new router and backup disks. I’d like to wipe the Airport disk before recycling.
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John Kueck
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11/21/21
I lost my application button on my dock as well as the button that shows all of my applications on the dock. How do I add them back in ?
I need to replace those buttons as I accidentally lost them. I found the application file and utilities files but I don’t know how to ... (3 Comments)
11/20/21
Conditional Highlighting is a great feature, but I don’t like the built-in styles. I know I can always copy from one of my existing tables or templates where I’ve created Custom styles, but it would be nice to change the default styles for the app. The same goes for ... (1 Comment)
11/19/21
I have been using Macs for past 25 years – now in mid 80’s and not terribly swift with computers – my question regards iCloud – do I need to know about it and use it? At present, I use My Passport For Mac with external HD for backup.
I am ignorant of ... (1 Comment)
11/18/21
Used hide my email for the first time the other day to make an online purchase. The item needs to be returned and I just now received an email from the merchant regarding same.
I hit the “return” button and my real email attaches. I use the data arrows to see if I can ... (3 Comments)
11/18/21
I need a keyboard shortcut to access System Preferences.
Anyone have a solution?
I have searched and searched, but I have not found that
this is “native” to Mac’s.
But there HAS to be a solution!
I can’t be the “only one” who has needed ... (4 Comments)
11/15/21
Objective: To display a webarchive in Numbers when there is no internet access.
I used shortcuts to create a webarchive. However, I can’t get it to do anything. I put it on my desktop and it says it is corrupted so get rid of it. When I do Quick View while still in ... (2 Comments)
11/15/21
What is the best way to ensure the that latest version of all the files on my iMac disk are also on on my external disk and vice versa. Thanks
I work mainly on my iMac which is where all of my files are. I use Time Machine for daily/weekly backup.
Sometimes I am away from home ... (2 Comments)
11/12/21
I have tons of files on my computer. Every so often I begin cleanup. I open finder and start in the beginning of a folder. I hit the space bar to see what the file is. I then close it, right click on the same document and move my cursor down to “Move to ... (4 Comments)
11/12/21
My phone 6s is almost to the end of its life, and so I’m ready to offer it to my daughter, she’s 11 years old.
I looked at the parental control, and it is very old, and I was wondering if you could do with iOS 15.
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Alex
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