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.1/8/21
How can I exclude the backup drive when searching for a file using the Finder?
I use TimeMachine to backup my computer to a Western Digital My Book Hard Drive.
But every time I search for a file Spotlight searches also the Western Digital My Book Hard Drive.
How can I exclude the ... (1 Comment)
1/7/21
How do I uninstall Adobe Flash Player? I keep getting pop-up messages to do this, and I don’t trust anything online anymore. Thanks.
I don’t think I need or want Adobe Flash Player for older things. I don’t play games.
My Firefox browser is running so slow and ... (6 Comments)
1/7/21
I am trying to move an iMac slideshow project from my photos in my iMac to my iPhone .
I want to view this slideshow on my Apple TV.
I cannot find a way to sort of export this photo slideshow from iMac to iPhone.
Device: Mac Running Catalina
App: Photos
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Rich
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1/7/21
How to do a screen shot and then print or export it?
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Dale K
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1/7/21
Thursday, January 07, 2021, 12:30 p.m. – I am trying to find a way to “unbold text” in the Apple Pages app. I can bold text (Command + B) but I cannot unbold text without going to the Inspector, thus moving my hand from keyboard to mouse and then move the Mouse ... (2 Comments)
1/6/21
I want to add a custom keyboard shortcut for the « Love » command in the Music App. I know how to assign a custom keyboard shortcut to any command in a particular app. However, I’m unable to assign a shortcut to the « Love » command in the Music App in French. I did ... (4 Comments)
1/4/21
I have a few important emails come in ‘buried’ in non-important emails, so the important ones are easy to miss. Is it possible to send all (Facebook for example), emails to a ‘Facebook folder’ to free up the inbox? Many thanks, Andy
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Andy
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1/2/21
Hi Gary, my son asked me to transfer a recovery disc which I have copied to my hard drive to a new external storage drive which he will be using on his pc. Is this possible & how best can I achieve it ?
My son’s pc hard drive crashed taking his entire photo collection ... (1 Comment)
1/2/21
I notice that in iOS (14.3) my iPhone and iPad designate my current location in the MAPS APP with a blue dot. What I am curious about are the blue lines that radiate out from this dot. The “radiating” lines are pie-shaped and only emanate from about a sixth to an ... (1 Comment)
1/1/21
How do I get look up to give translations in any app into and from french or Italian?
I just would like a quick way to get translations of individual words instead of having to use a separate dictionary, or a translation app
Device: iPhone,iPad
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Brian
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12/31/20
I have copied all the Attachments under Messages from my Library to a new folder. With Attachments, there are many sub-folders and sub-sub-folders, etc.? How can I simply extract all the files from every subfolder and create a new folder with just files in a single ... (1 Comment)
12/31/20
I’m wondering how to Highlight a single cell in a row, when it is the lowest number in the row.
Is this possible? as i can’t seam to create my own rule like i would in excel.
looking to compare prices for products from several stores so have products in each row ... (1 Comment)
12/29/20
I noticed that my hard drive is divided into two partitions. They are Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD – Data. I also noticed that while the Macintosh HD Partition is mounted the Macintosh HD – Data portion is not mounted. Is this normal? I’m viewing this in disk ... (7 Comments)
12/29/20
I purchased a 2020 iMac recently. It is running macOS Catalina. I want to disable the login password when starting the computer so that it automatically logs in. I tried going to System Preferences, User Groups, my Name, and unlocked the lock. However, the Automatic Login is ... (1 Comment)
12/27/20
I have two iMac’s. Purchased in 2013 and would like to use one as a monitor and would like to know how to do it. Have asked a few people and all different answers. One says I can’t do it. One says use thunderbolt cables but don’t think they have it…help. Don ... (1 Comment)
12/23/20
Using System Preferences, changing from Bash to zsh; my question relates to the Warning at top of text box. Is this just a standard warning as I don’t want to prevent myself from logging back into my account? Appreciate any advice. Thank you, Art C
Per Apple, Bash is ... (4 Comments)
12/22/20
When I I’m Mac mail on my iPad, I click on a link in the message and a third window emerges from the right side. It is never full screen. I then have 3 different windows open. This seems to have recently started…but I would prefer to have the view different…any ... (1 Comment)
12/19/20
Adobe Creative Suite creates a folder called Adobe in my documents folder. If I delete that folder, it get created again the next time I use Adobe CC. I have a lot files and I like to organize them is specific fashion and it annoys me to have that folder always at the top of my ... (5 Comments)
12/18/20
Where can we get a independent comparison of the search engines now available in Big Sur…..other than Google.
I DO NOT want to use Google as a search engine.
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Ed Flisher
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12/18/20
I am trying to use Automator to automatically import images into the Photo App from a folder that I have exported an image to from Affinity Photo. I then want to have the file in the folder sent to the bin.
Script
Folder Action
Filter Finder Items
File extension is jpg
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