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.8/6/19
I have a mid 2011 iMac running OS 10.13.6. I bought it used a number of years ago and didn’t know to ask the previous owner for his user ID info. But I can’t use iTunes or the App Store. So how do I take control of my iMac? Thanks.
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Allan S.
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8/6/19
I am trying to implement (and build upon) your video using a spreadsheet to create new slides in keynote. I already have the slides in place, but I would like to know if there is a script I could write to change the value in a cell with the same table name on each ... (1 Comment)
8/5/19
I am looking to speed up my MacBook Air – currently with Mojave OS.
The cleaning I refer to old or junk files, but I struggle with the concept of deleting files. I currently have 80,000 + files in my email client. But I am regularly searching them for client contacts and ... (1 Comment)
8/4/19
Using imovie 10.1.12, on latest imac. When I take photos or videos on my iphone, they are all automatically saved in PHOTOS in icloud and are available for viewing on all my devices. I believe they’re also saved locally on my iMac. All good. I recently imported one of ... (1 Comment)
8/4/19
I want to be able to record some short educational videos for both our team and for customers and want to use my iPhone XS to do that.
I have an external lapel microphone with the standard 16mm plug and want to know what cables/adapters people use with the iPhone or if indeed it ... (3 Comments)
8/4/19
In Numbers, I have a column of numbers. I want to pull the last number in that column from that Sheet to another Sheet. How can I do that?
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Peter Paul Mendel
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8/4/19
I am trying to add a GIF (from Giphy) into a Keynote presentation. I have read you can drag and drop but this isn’t working and I either get nothing or some web address text. How can I insert a GIF?
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Sarah-Jane Brown
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8/1/19
IMac – macOS Majave 10.14.5. My Family History Book, will be about 300 pages with a lot of text, old photos and documents. When finished saved to PDF file. I have your Pages course. Not sure if I should use Pages Word-processing or Page Layout. In Pages Word Processing is ... (2 Comments)
7/31/19
A friend has countless “incriminating” text messages from her ex on her iPhone (version unknown) and wants to consolidate them into a single PDF document for court-related purposes. She does not have a computer, unfortunately. (She could use a computer at school if ... (1 Comment)
7/30/19
Gary, I have three mac devices which all receive my email,( same address for all three). If I delete one message on one device, it is removed from the other two. Is there a way with mail to unsink them, so as if I delete a message on one device, the other two are not affected? ... (3 Comments)
7/27/19
Floating or fixed layout
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Geir Arne Midtgaard
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7/26/19
Hi Gary.
I moved several Time Machine backups from my external drive to my Trash. #BoneHeadMove
I cannot “put them back” onto the drive and it takes hours for even one of the folders to be deleted from the Trash. What options do I have to get this done quicker, but ... (3 Comments)
7/26/19
I just got a new iMac compatible printer and was going around and deleting the old software. One thing I did notice that under Launchpad there was an app called Printer Pro Desktop. I do not remember installing it and it will not delete from Launchpad. Went online and searched ... (2 Comments)
7/25/19
I can’t use my 32 bit apps. in Mojave, so I want to remove Mojave and install Mountain lion. I can’t find it on my backup so I need a disk or other help.
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Jack B
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7/25/19
I have flash drives (and other removable drives) where the files are not in alphabetical order. I can Sort them in order using the View options but then the next time I insert this same drive they are mixed up again. What am I doing wrong? Is there no way to keep them ... (2 Comments)
7/25/19
Trying to add a folder on mail app on my iPad 6th gen.
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Tony Whittaker
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7/25/19
Is there any way to change the Date Modified “format” on a Mac? By default it spells out the whole month and uses “at” like:
September 24, 2018 at 22:14
Can we change it to the Windows date format:
9/24/18 10:14pm
Or better, make it:
9/24/18 22:14
Takes up ... (2 Comments)
7/25/19
I send a daily email to family members. For historical and future access I’d like to save them in a searchable format for later access by any of them. Do you know of any services or trick to do this?
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John Kueck
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7/24/19
I have a Macbook Pro and I’m using the Apple email service. Recently when I send emails I often get this message back.
“I’m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients.
: host mx.centurylink.net[206.152.134.65] ... (1 Comment)
7/24/19
Is paying $1700 for an upgrade from early 2015 MacBook Air to Apple Refurbished 2018 MacBook Pro worth it? My Air has 2.2Ghz Intel Core i7, 8 GB ram and 500 GB internal storage. The refurbished 2018 MB Pro has 2.3 Ghz Quad core i5 with 16 GB ram and 512 GB internal storage. ... (1 Comment)
