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.6/24/21
I have my rather large vinyl collection entered into numbers. I used this INDEX(TABLE 1::F1:F2020,RANDBETWEEN(1,2020)) to create a random play generator. Now, I would like to take this a step further. I want to filter my library by year of release (which I can already do), and ... (1 Comment)
6/24/21
I keep up to date with all my podcasts, deleting viewed ones as I go along. However the amount of storage being used by podcasts on my iPad is extremely large at 1.3 Gb. Why is this and how do I control it?
Thanks,
Peter Hardaker
Podcasts is taking up a disproportionate amount of ... (4 Comments)
6/22/21
How do I edit the name of a folder – or delete a folder – in NOTES?
I’m trying to organize my NOTES, but I am unable to edit or delete folders in that app.
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Simon Young
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6/22/21
Hi, Does anyone know if you can sort a shopping list in Notes? I checked the ‘automatically sort ticked items’, and that’s doesn’t work?
Reason: because it’s easier to find items when they’re sort in alphabetical order.
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Ian Rogers
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6/22/21
Is there a way to stop Mail marking a message as Read just because it has the focus after an adjacent message has been deleted?
There is nothing in the Mail Preferences that seems relevant.
I like to skim through unread messages and delete those of no interest. However, this ... (7 Comments)
6/17/21
Is there some kind of strip outlet box that I can plug my computer and other things into so that if there is a power outage my computer won’t shut off?
Thanks Gary.
I live in Florida and we have many power outages and that’s why a box like I’m suggesting would ... (2 Comments)
6/17/21
In my Apple ID account, I am using my email from an ISP (created ten years ago) as the Apple-ID. Now thought of creating an iCloud email for my wife, and did so. But I did not understand, that you can only add one mail account there (plus three alias linked to that one as well). ... (1 Comment)
6/17/21
I use an iMac (3Tb) with a Time Machine hard drive (6Tb) and I have recently started to use iCloud (2Tb). I have a lot of photos (42,000+) in Photos taken over many years and I wish to keep taking more…
I have recently found hundreds of much older family photos (divided ... (2 Comments)
6/14/21
I have 3 email accounts that I use on my Mac.
What I am trying to do is set a Rule so that any mail over 90 days is automatically deleted. Every time I try I end up removing everything or nothing happens. I have now removed all my attempts.
Any suggestions welcome.
I am doing ... (2 Comments)
6/11/21
How can I add a suffix to the formula result in a cell. So I have
Cell a1 “Total Steel KG”, Cell b1 “1200”
Cell a2 “Total area Sq. Ft., ” Cell b2 ” 800″
Cell a3 ... (1 Comment)
6/10/21
When using FileVault, and you are logging in, is your login password also the key that decrypts FileVault? And if that’s true, when you turn FileVault on, does it use your login password to seed the encryption? And if that is also true, does it mean that the longer and more ... (1 Comment)
6/10/21
Im a coach for a football team. Every day we train we plan our session in a numbers sheet. Same sheet every day. Now, instead of printing it and keeping the paper, I would like to record some statistics in the document for the remaining season. Every training we have some sort of ... (1 Comment)
6/5/21
I have followed the directions as best that I am able but I am still not getting the results. I am trying to install Apple Chancery such that I can use the font in pages.
The font is no longer greyed out in the Font Book and I can find the Chancery font in something called ... (2 Comments)
6/4/21
I imported an excel file into numbers that contains data with names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. The names and addresses are all capitalized and I would like to change them to Title Case. I was able to change the case with Format/Font/Capitalization and I can see the data is ... (1 Comment)
6/3/21
I was ill advised not to update my computer a long time ago! Now, of course it is very out of date and I would like to update it as far as I can.
It is an iMac (21.5 inch, late 2013)
Processor – 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory – 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Model identifier ... (2 Comments)
6/2/21
I have a MacBook Pro running Catalina and a Photos library. I also have an iMac running Catalina with an empty Photos library. I want to have the same Photos library on both computers. How can I do this?
I simply want the same library on both computers.
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Jack Towl
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6/2/21
Hi Gary
I live in a large house here in the south west of England and I have been using a Time Capsule as my router together with 2 Airport Extremes and 2 Airport Express’s for quite a number of years. I have reasonable wifi but not as good as I’d like it to be.
I ... (4 Comments)
6/1/21
Can Numbers determine the current day of the year and the remaining days in the year for a given date?
Example
A2 = 06/01/2021
B2 = 152 (day of the year based on cell A2)
C2 = 213 (remaining days in the year based on cell A1)
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Jessica
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5/31/21
Keychain: I want to know why my Mac will not automatically fill in my Apple ID password when I am downloading an app from the app store, nor will does it seem to store my Apple ID password, such that I can find it when I do a search of Keychain,and, finally, when I create a new ... (3 Comments)
5/31/21
Hi, with failing eyesight I would like to make the blinking text cursor more prominent. I viewed Gary’s video on cursors and can change to arrow cursor but not the one I want.
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Margaret
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