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.3/13/19
I want to sort the Bookmark folders alphabetically. How do I do that?
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Peter Paul Mendel
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3/12/19
Gary, what OS upgrade could I put in an older Mac Book Pro safely? I am using Mavericknow. Spects are: 200 GB free SATA Disk, 4GB memory, 2.4Ghz Inter Core 2 Duo.
Current OS: 10.9.5
My second question is where would I find the upgrade, if in fact this feasible?
Thank You, ... (2 Comments)
3/12/19
I use gmail and get it using Mail and occasionally look at Google Mail via Safari/Google/Mail. I only have this one email account now -which is fine for me. Google has everything sent to me beginning circa 2013. I want to simplify things – retired and just let go mydomain ... (1 Comment)
3/12/19
Hi Gary, I recently replaced a Mac and set it (the older one) up for my parents who are new to Apple and tentative about tech to begin with. They are an hour away and it would be helpful to be able to see what they are trying to do, help them with the effort, or, in some cases, ... (1 Comment)
3/11/19
I want to give away my 2013 iMac. I know that I need to sign out of iCloud, iTunes, etc. but then I want to reinstall the Mojave OS. Can I press Command Q to stop at some point so it will be ready for my cousin to sign in?
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Allan
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3/10/19
Time Machine does it backup every hour, day, week etc but if the backup is up to date, example only 1 minute ago and I create a document and save it to the desktop or a folder, then put the Mac in sleep mode and not return to the computer for at least 2 hours will Time Machine ... (3 Comments)
3/10/19
I just got a new 12.9 IPad and want to put movie’s (DVD’s) that I own on it.
How do I do that?
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Nick Moye
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3/9/19
I love the Magic Mouse, but I hate the horizontal scrolling because it is too sensitive and hard to control. Accidental swipes often takes me back a few pages in many applications. Especially web browsers. Is there any way to turn this off. I know of MagicPrefs, but it no longer ... (9 Comments)
3/7/19
In 1998, I made a file from Mac’s version of word/pages and they have no file extension, in todays OS High Sierra- by clicking on the name-it shows a terminal exec icon with unix executable. Getting info on it gives no application available to open it. BUT if I manually ... (3 Comments)
3/6/19
My MacBook 12 inch retina Early 2015 with Mojave version does not recognize external hard drive and pen drive. It does not mount and does not show on the desktop screen. It does not show in disk utility app. It also does not show in the Finder.
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Nitin
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3/3/19
I’m playing with ‘how to add an Album to a Folder’. While the process is working I’ve messed up and need to change the name I’ve given to this Album. We use to be able to edit ‘titles’ but I’m not finding that in the iOS ... (2 Comments)
3/3/19
I am using Mojave 10.14.3. I was trying to send a 7 min. video to a friend. Got a message cannot send through email because it is too big. Asked if I wanted to use Mail Drop through iCloud. I never used this before. So I tried it. Saw that the blue line on left side was hardly ... (3 Comments)
3/2/19
Hi, working with Pages 7.3 – have viewed videos on pages/sections and facing pages. I have created 5 sections (empty at this stage), the first 4 are for the book title etc and now I want to start the story and page numbering on page 5. From your previous instructions I ... (2 Comments)
3/2/19
I am trying to synch the photos on my iPhone with those on my MacBook Pro please. I thought I had tried everything but it still won’t work and I am concerned as I do not want to lose all the photos on my iPhone.
Thanks in advance for any help you are able to give ... (8 Comments)
3/2/19
I am using DDG for Safari on my iPad and many times I get “cannot be opened because Ad Content blocker won’t open this page”. I was just on Etsy and most shops were blocked until I changed to Yahoo search engine. I love concept behind DDG. Is there a way to fix this? There ... (4 Comments)
3/1/19
MBPro -2010 -High Sierra latest upgrades-1TB HD with iCloud 200GB and optimization for Desktop and Documents folder ON, had to reformat due to software malfunction (unfixable Genius Bar tried).
AFTERWARDS cloud stored files (using same AppleID) appear on MBPro. 1. Are these ... (3 Comments)
3/1/19
I’m having difficulty in creating a shared folder(s) using iCloud. I have a family account with iCloud with 200Gb space. We have two unique Apple ID’s and work from two different devices (iMac & MacBook). We share the 200Gb.
I have a set of folders that we both work ... (3 Comments)
2/28/19
When we used iTunes to sort and arrange our apps on iPhone and iPad, we could also rearrange the screens/pages those apps are on. I want to rearrange my iPad screens, without having to move all my apps. Is there a way we can still do that?
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Bente Andermahr
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2/28/19
Upgraded iMac to 10.14.3 this morning. All went well but iMessage has not repopulated from my iPhone 6 (12.1.4). I can start & send new messages, but the conversations on my phone haven’t transferred to the iMac. I tried signing out of my iCloud account on both iPhone ... (4 Comments)
2/27/19
It seems that I have tried everything. iMac Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, Late 2015. Mojave 10.14.3 iPhone 6s+ with latest update.
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Don Palmer
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