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.11/5/21
Gary, I’ve purchased a number of the new Apple AirTags – Clever little devices – I think one of your tutorials on them would be great – just a suggestion.
If you decide to do it, here is a problem I’ve run into and not sure how to address the issue. Whenever ... (1 Comment)
11/5/21
Thanks for your many videos of help. I have a situation where I need to sort a given number of rows and columns within a table leaving the header row intact.
By way of example. I have row 2 as a header, columns A & B as ‘headers’ and I want to sort columns E ... (1 Comment)
11/5/21
I am adding my Outlook and Gmail account to mail app. Once added, it is starting to download all the mails from outlook and gmail servers from the beginning. It already downloaded almost 4GB data. I am trying to find the solution to stop this or at least limit the download.
1. ... (3 Comments)
11/4/21
Is it possible when printing an email, to make it larger. I am finding when I go to print an email the type is so small you can barely read it. Thanks so much.
Because I like a hard copy I want to be able to read it without getting a magnifying glass. I am able to read the ... (5 Comments)
11/4/21
I recently purchased new Macbook pro, and I am all new to Apple products now and I am very satisfied with everything. Now I have a question about one folder in Finder which I dont know what is it for. Its called “on my mac”. I can choose whether it will or will not be ... (2 Comments)
11/4/21
I need to be able to copy a table from Safari to numbers or excel. The extension copy tables does not work well in Safari as it does not support a plain text option. The same extension works well with Chrome and Vivaldi. To use it with Safari, I would have to modify my excel ... (4 Comments)
11/3/21
Are pinned tabs still possible in Safari 15.x now that tab groups are available? Thanks.
Just thinking ahead about how I might deal with the couple of pinned tabs I’ve grown accustomed to in Safari and whether I’ll have to tab-group them to get a similar experience in ... (2 Comments)
11/3/21
Found unknown source (not from Apple or identified developers) apps that look suspicious
Hi, when I look at my Macbook Pro’s system information and then, software, apps. I see a bunch of (under the “obtained from” column) source “UNKNOWN” apps. ... (2 Comments)
11/2/21
Is there a way of having a video, blurring it out and then overlaying a picture(or video) on top of it as the audio is still playing and then revert back to the clear video. E.g. I have a video interview then I want to blur the image and replace it with a photo and then return ... (1 Comment)
10/30/21
Using a 2021 MacBook pro w/M1 Max Chip what is the best interface to deal with 2 1080 Monitors – mostly for CAD work?
looking for the best hardware approach to feed the two monitors.
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Dan McK
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10/29/21
How to setup a shortcut to open for example 10 folders with each one as a Finder within the same Finder window?
I have an “ART” folder and within this folder are specific folders for each art piece by name. I want to run a scrip to open eg 10 folders in new Finder ... (3 Comments)
10/28/21
Apple Helpdesk in the Netherlands said it was not possible (and that probably will be the case), but still I would like to ask the question in this forum: is there a way, when opening an app on an iMac, to open that app directly in full screen mode?
My eyes are not very good, so ... (2 Comments)
10/28/21
Notifications – I’m trying to a) remove any apps in the list that I will never want notifications from (e.g. Google, Dashlane, Evernote blog) and b) identify and apps where I would like to add them to the Notifications Centre.
I’m unclear how Mac OS decides ... (1 Comment)
10/28/21
I collaborate with colleagues in many different time zones (from Sydney – Moscow – Amsterdam – UTC – Sao Paulo – New York – California, and a few more). We have occasional Zoom calls where most of them have to attend. And communicating the ... (1 Comment)
10/28/21
Thank you for the awesome video from 2018 explaining how to delete a file (and all its backups) from Time Machine (https://macmost.com/how-to-remove-all-copies-of-a-file-from-time-machine.html). I am running a 2013 Mac Pro with Big Sur and it seems that the method explained in ... (20 Comments)
10/27/21
In the list view of Mail App on iPhone, I swipe left to delete a message, but some messages don’t have the Delete option there, inconvenient.
Even when I open such a message the bin is not shown under it.
I miss the standard delete function with some of messages in Mail App ... (4 Comments)
10/26/21
With Monterey, this is the first major OS update for those that moved from Windows to macOS when the M1 enticed us over. One of the first tasks after a Windows OS upgrade is to cleanup all of the old OS version roll-back files. With macOS, are equivalent cleanup steps necessary? ... (1 Comment)
10/26/21
Monterey OS has come out, I have an iMac from 2019, with the Intel chip in it. I was told my a “Mac Expert” to absolutely not update the OS to Monterey based on the fact that I have the Intel Chip and not the New Mac chip (don’t know the name). If I update to ... (3 Comments)
10/26/21
I’ve just installed Monterey, and I’m looking at Shortcuts for the first time. I wonder if it’s possible to write a shortcut to verbally announce when my next meeting is about to start? Ideally MacOS would speak up a minute or two before my meeting is about to ... (1 Comment)
10/25/21
Please explain various Mac audio file formats and how to open and play Windows Media Audio (WMA) files on a Mac.
Sometimes public meetings are recorded as downloadable WMA files. When I save them to the desktop and try to play them the default takes me to WMA Lite with several ... (3 Comments)
