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.6/24/20
I keep a daily diary about a family members dementia in a pages document. I’ve been writing this diary since May 2019. It’s currently more than 1,000 pages in length.
When checking hard disc usage recently I found that the .DocumentRevisions-V100 file had grown to 4GB ... (3 Comments)
6/22/20
I don’t know which to rely on; “personal vault” or “primary vault”. I had to copy all the items from here to there to avoid loosing any! Which is better to make as my default vault?
How to arrange and clean my items in the vault?
How to fix the ... (2 Comments)
6/22/20
I don’t know how to start! I am trying to make a movie for my sons wedding. I made one in 2011 using keynote.
I am only using photos, want to add in titles and pop up words within each slide. I use different transitions between the photos- some longer than others, as well ... (3 Comments)
6/22/20
As an example, say I have cells F2 to F10 being totalled in cell F15. As I add information into the cells in the F column; filling in, F11, F12, etc I need to move my totalling cell (F15) to say F25, and then I need to edit the formula in F25 to increase the range being totalled ... (1 Comment)
6/21/20
Is there an easy way to disable keyboard when cleaning screen and keyboard on Mac. I have tried shutting down but as soon as I touch the keyboard the systems stats up again.
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Terry T
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6/20/20
I have a new MacBook Pro 2020 13” that was released in June 2020. I use Catalina 10.15.5. Apple support verified that they don’t have a compatible external player for this new laptop!! How can I find one? Googling my request doesn’t show any that specifically work with ... (4 Comments)
6/19/20
Is there any way I can use a footnote number more than once on the same page? I don’t want a whole list of different numbers all referring to the same source in my document.
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Margaret
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6/19/20
I had files saved in iCloud, I deleted them but also from trash. i have tried restoring from iCloud Drive in the Advanced Setting but the files did not appear in that section. What can I do now? It does seem logical that file deleted from trash would then go somewhere on iCloud ... (2 Comments)
6/19/20
Hi Gary, I am trying to clear some space on my MacBook Pro and using the About this Mac, then Storage, when you look at the hard drive, it shows I have 118GB of files labelled iOS files from the days when I stored all the apps on my Mac rather than just re installing from the ... (1 Comment)
6/18/20
I’ve made my Movie in iMovie using video and pics. I saved it to File and it plays back well. But,
I can’t get it into my Apple TV.
Also I have other video of M4V, MOV, AVI ….what do you suggest I do with these…they’re in a folder called ... (1 Comment)
6/18/20
My storage is 2/3 “other” and leaves me little storage; can no longer upgrade software or back up computer.
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Fran
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6/16/20
I know you recommend against using the default email address provided by internet service providers. Do you have any feelings about using the router provided by one’s ISP?
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Michael
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6/16/20
I have an iPhone 6s and I’m looking for recommendations for a solid but not too expensive external mic to plug in for recording voice memos.
To be clear, this is NOT for recording lectures in a classroom setting but for simply recording my own voice memos with better ... (1 Comment)
6/13/20
Hi Gary. I now have fibre to my house so some reasonable internet speeds (300 download, 51 upload). Can I look to dump my USB Disc Drives and backup (using TimeMachine) to iCloud? I appreciate I would need to have the 2TB subscription. Are there any Pros and Cons, assuming the ... (6 Comments)
6/13/20
I have a 2015 iMac running very slowly. Activity monitor show nsurlsessiond alway hogging cpu and memory. I reinstalled Catalina, quit nsurlsessiond multiple times but it just keeps restarting. Tried turning off various sync function but nothing works. Any ... (1 Comment)
6/13/20
Hi Gary, I am a Patreon subscriber and I am trying to see if I can drop doing the iTunes backup of my iPad and iPhone? I have latest Mac software, and iOS too. There used to be a difference that if you only used iCloud, health data and some other stuff was not backed up. ie no ... (5 Comments)
6/12/20
Spotlight didn’t find my email from this morning, only earlier emails. How often does Spotlight reindex? Can I force a reindex?
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David Sofi
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6/12/20
I opened my MacBook Pro (13″ – mid 2012 model) 2 nights ago only to find 4000 emails in my mailbox icon. I contacted my internet provider who told me to change my password for my email address. then I proceeded to delete all the emails.
I’m still receiving ... (2 Comments)
6/11/20
I am on a Mac 27″ desktop using Mojave 10.14.6. I have many 35mm black & white and Kodacolor negatives, but scanning is very slow. I have set up my Canon digital camera to photograph the negatives, but I come up with negative images, same as the originals.
I found an ... (3 Comments)
6/11/20
Do you have any explanation for why apps appear in some Share Menu views and not others? I don’t mean can be added by selecting the “edit” button, but why in e.g. Safari I can share to app X (which is in the icon list), but in Files app X isn’t included in either the icon ... (9 Comments)
