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.4/29/19
I have a new 27″ iMac coming in 2 weeks with a 3TB Fusion Drive. My current iMac has a 1TB drive that is 85% full and an external G-drive, 2TB, that is 70% full. Together they are ~2.1TB of data. Both drives are backed up to a new WD Passport 4TB via Time Machine. I have ... (2 Comments)
4/28/19
Last fall I bought a Seagate 5TB Backup Plus (brand recommended on your site). It backed up my MBP 2013 once and ever since every attempt gives me a failure message “Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “Seagate Backup” or the other message same ... (13 Comments)
4/25/19
I have enjoyed your recent videos of definitions of technical terms. As a recent Mac user I would like to see defining videos of Terminal mode and AppleScript. Are they the same? When would you use one or the other? Why would you need to use one or the other? Is Terminal like ... (1 Comment)
4/25/19
Since I installed os Mojave last year my MacBook Pro’s battery drained 30 to 40% while sleeping overnight. Many people have reported the same problem online and couldn’t resolve the issue. I called AppleCare and they recommended I shut my MacBook Pro down every night (I ... (1 Comment)
4/24/19
I get free classical songs from yourclassical.org and try and keep them together in a Compilation Album. I started long ago but the system keeps changing and I am not having any luck with newer downloads. I change the name of the album in the Song Info to the compilation album ... (2 Comments)
4/24/19
I use the filter functions a lot to analyse data, but I cannot find a formula or function in Numbers to calculate the changing financial total as I filter the data. As you know in excel and Google sheets the formula is =subtotal(9,range).
Help please
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David
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4/23/19
I need to lock selected cells on a Numbers work sheet. I know I can lock the whole sheet, but I only want certain cells.
What I have been doing is making a shape the same size as the cells I want to lock, lower the opacity to 0 then lock the shape to cover the cell. It works, but ... (4 Comments)
4/23/19
I need to lock selected cells on a Numbers work sheet. I know I can lock the whole sheet, but I only want certain cells.
What I have been doing is making a shape the same size as the cells I want to lock, lower the opacity to 0 then lock the shape to cover the cell. It works, but ... (1 Comment)
4/23/19
I have been trying to find a way to create a shortcut to print multiple (4, 9 or 16) pages into 1 page of pdf?
By changing the printing option each time takes a long time if I have hundreds of pdf to convert individually.
Any suggestion is appreciated. Thank ... (5 Comments)
4/23/19
I am trying to print a certificate from my security monitoring company, but when I try to open the document, it says this popup is being blocked.
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judy
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4/20/19
Except for break time, my iPhone stays in my pocket during my work shift. When I take it out at break time, I discover it has called my wife several times, or the flashlight is on, or I can’t unlock the phone (“try again in X minutes”), or something else that ... (1 Comment)
4/19/19
Does anyone out there use Siri on their computer(s)? I have a MBP and am annoyed as hell every time my little finger finds Siri’s button. I use Siri for adding olive oil, bread, washers and the like to lists like Grocery and Tools and I love having Siri, “Turn the ... (2 Comments)
4/16/19
I’ve been using Keynote for years. One of the nice features is the ability to drag and drop image files into the thumbnail pane, which results in each image becoming a slide. Saves a lot of time as opposed to dropping images onto individual slides one at a time.
I was ... (5 Comments)
4/15/19
When attempting to clean up my Time Capsule, I found a couple of .sparsebundles which are lingering from an old Mac (which I no longer have). When I attempt to purge them, I am getting the error “The operation can’t be completed because the item “bands” is in ... (1 Comment)
4/15/19
I have less than 300 photos that need to be removed from an old iMac a put into a new iMac.
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Allan
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4/15/19
Recently I shot about 20 pics with my iPhone 7 plus. When I viewed them later in my Photos app, all the new pics were blurry. I was very disappointed to see all of them blurry (with no chance of shooting the experience again). While researching my problem online, I was in my ... (2 Comments)
4/12/19
I have a running total cell ie. cell T3 in my summary sheet. I want that cell to capture the value from a total’s cell “T6″ on a different sheets, each sheet is a copy from a master. Cell T3 on the summary can say”=SUM Sheet1,T6” for example. But ... (1 Comment)
4/12/19
This notice appears in upper-right corner of screen.
I can “close” it, but clicking on “Show” leads nowhere.
How do I get rid of it? It gets in the way of other operations frequently and is a real pain.
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Grant
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4/11/19
When I try to access information when using Keychain Access I am required to type in my system password, but am not able to use fingerprint recognition. The same is true under terminal when I use sudo.
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Wm F Seabrook
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4/11/19
I use my time capsule hard drive to store my films and tv programes on I have connected to my MacBook by usb caddy and it showed up so it was easy to move files around and add thing I have tried to connect the hard drive again and it shows up as unreadable but the content is on ... (4 Comments)
