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.8/2/11
Installed Lion twice using Installer app (not clean install) in 2 HDDs with multi-partitions. No Recovery HD was created as expected from article I read, but both times all data in Documents gone including the Installer app (had Installer app in Documents). Good thing I backed ... (6 Comments)
8/2/11
This topic,and i am not alone, I have never found an answer to this question yet. Example – you have just filled in a form or bought something,then a drop down appears warning you,that the form will be duplicated or the object you bought will also be duplicated,and you ... (2 Comments)
8/2/11
I use iMovie’s latest version on my iMac7.
A week ago, I decided to upload my movies through iMovie from my camera to an external drive.
When the drive (non-apple) was connected and it showed on the desktop, iMovie would not allow me to select it. This has left me with the ... (1 Comment)
8/2/11
I was thinking of upgrading my iMac from Lion client to Server. Motivations: host my own website; setting up WebDAV for iOS document sharing; family calendar; email management.
Are there any downsides or gotchas to upgrading my iMac to Lion Server? Do all the features from the ... (1 Comment)
8/2/11
whenever i click on “energy saver” for some reason my system preferences closes automatically and comes up an error… what could be the problem?
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patrick
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8/2/11
In Snow Leopard, the Finder sidebar had an “All Images” catch-all, where you could search for an image where you weren’t certain whether it belonged in mail, photos etc. I can’t seem to find this facility now.
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George Wilson
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8/2/11
I have lots of DVDs, including Blu-ray. I heard of some video streaming apps, like Air Video, Air Playit, etc. with which I am capable of streaming videos to iPhone iPad iPod touch from PC/Mac. That’s interesting.
But I have a question: can I stream some DVD movies to my iPhone ... (1 Comment)
8/1/11
Ever since I downloaded Lion I am getting lots of question marks instead of accented letters and symbols in Firefox and Mail. What do I need to change?
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Andrea
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8/1/11
I am learning how to work with Preview. I keep running obstacles . So I want to know what I may be doing wrong. A couple concerns are?
FONT SIZING?
When I am able to get the text box up the font when it does appear– I have sized in EXTREMELY LARGE ( example 295 and up in ... (2 Comments)
8/1/11
Can i install Microsoft Office 2008 on Lion? I want to make a clean install of Lion. Is it possible? Would it be better to make a clean install of Snow Leopard and install MS Office 08 and then install Lion?
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Jon
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8/1/11
Hey Gary could you remind me what it is that Mac OS X’s “Dropbox” folder is useful for?
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Michael
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7/31/11
Does the iMovie project files contain the actual clips in the project itself or does it refer only to the locations of the clips I have chosen for the project and not the actual clips My Macbook Pro HD is running out of space. If I move the iMovie events and projects to an ... (3 Comments)
7/31/11
Enjoyed quickly finding downloaded files in Snow Leopard with the sidebar option of “yesterday, today, this week” In Lion cannot find that option. Was it removed? thanks
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Rick
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7/31/11
I spent almost an hour with Apple Support yesterday trying to solve what appears to be a bug in Finder in Lion, without getting a result.
The problem occurs when I try to use Finder to search a folder containing music. In Snow Leopard I could search by Album or Artist. In Lion, ... (5 Comments)
7/31/11
Is there a free one? Ideally I need to be able to convert the SVCD disc to a simple MPEG.
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Ben Surket
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7/31/11
I could really use some advice on buying a good quality money manager for Mac. I’m based in India, with Indian banking, so it’s a consideration – some US money managers may only interface with American banks.
I’m looking for one complete package to help me ... (4 Comments)
7/31/11
I try to send multiple (two) documents from Pages for iPhone in one email. I cannot find a way how. Is there a chance?
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Orgati
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7/30/11
Gary since updating to Lion, I noticed two new unfamiliar things at least. For one my NAS drive connected to an Airport Extreme has a “unknown” in the “Sharing and Permissions” and I can not seem to add or make changes. there are two user accounts, my wife ... (9 Comments)
7/29/11
I always thought that multiple devices using the same Apple ID stayed in sync with each other. But now I have an iPad. After I’ve checked and deleted messages in Mail on my MBA,I then open my iPad to find the same messages marked as unread. This is not how I expected ... (7 Comments)
