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.2/12/19
The widow of my dead friend has his iCloud password to access his account to see photos (for example) but wants to move all his content to her iCloud account. She has inherited his MacBookPro, iPad and iPhone and can unlock all devices but does not want to loose any data when she ... (1 Comment)
2/12/19
I use an Apple Mac (latest software) with Chrome and send and receive emails on Gmail account. I would like to have a brief, stock phrase repeated at the beginning of my emails without retyping it.
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William Threlfall
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2/11/19
I use Aperture for basic cataloguing and post processing. I then use Luminar 3 for advanced processing. This results in the image being put into Tiff. I need it back in jpeg for transmitting to an on-line contest.
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David Katz, MD
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2/9/19
Using ‘people’ in Photos, How do I remove “unnamed” on my photographs?…(which I could do when my photographs were in the prior library called iPhotos? ) In the meantime, should I “name” them? Thanks, Dakota
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2/9/19
I’d like to connect my late 2013 Mac Pro 6,1 to a Thunderbolt 3 device. I’m looking to add another drive, but I don’t want to buy one that won’t be the current type, as I’m looking to upgrade my Mac later this year. I’d wait, but I need the storage now.
Thanks in ... (1 Comment)
2/9/19
I imported 300 pictures from a PC using a thumb drive, imported them directly into Photos. The pictures imported were titled when they were on the PC.
But in Photos, the mouseover shows ‘untitled” in grey. The Get Info box shows an image number only. When I try to ... (2 Comments)
2/9/19
I am a YouTuber running MacOS 10.14.3, and use iMovie 10.1.10 to edit my videos. When I return from a trip, I want to import my photos from my iPhone into the Mac Photos app (v 4.0), and the videos into iMovie. iMovie makes the latter part easy: I can choose to see All Clips, ... (2 Comments)
2/9/19
I sure would like to understand the security side of Google checking my Passwords. Does that feel a bit invasive? So in some mysterious computer way Google has my passwords to compare with compromised ones. I still rely on 1Password. But, of course the Google check is a ... (1 Comment)
2/9/19
I use 1Password to manage and generate safe passwords (long, complex with special characters).
But here is the problem. After installing a MacOS update on my MacBook Pro, I’m presented with a screen asking for my Apple ID password, but I don’t have access to ... (2 Comments)
2/9/19
I would like to upgrade to iOS 12 on my older iPhone 5S, but have read that in some cases, some problems are experienced. Any comments?
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Ken
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2/8/19
I have always used stationery, that was in Sierra, in order to send colorful emails to club members. After installing Mojave the stationery is no longer available. (It was from pre-built email templates)
Is there any way to regain this functionality of Apple Mail and add ... (1 Comment)
2/7/19
Need to update MS products to work on Mojave, what do I need to do?
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Frank Grimaldi
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2/7/19
To ensure my old Word and Excel docs open and are editable in the all-64-bit environment later in 2019, should I convert them to Pages or Numbers now?
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Rod
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2/7/19
For professional reasons, I would like to be able to record into my Mac Pro a scene from a movie that has been recorded in my cable system’s DVR. So that I could then convert it to QuickTime and work with it within my computer’s software. I’ve tried a few things but ... (1 Comment)
2/7/19
I would be really grateful if you could please tell me the best and easiest way of making mailing labels and saving them.
Many thanks for your help.
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Bobbie
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2/7/19
My paid version of Acrobat Pro (v 10.1.1) is being decommissioned and Acrobat DC requires a monthly subscription to get necessary services. What’s the best application, without a monthly fee (one time fee ok), for reading, editing, stamping and signing PDF ... (1 Comment)
2/6/19
I used your method of adding beat markers manually using your #992 video on YouTube. However, now that I’ve synced all my video footage to the beat, I want to remove the black background so that I can start adding in transitions between scenes. But imovie doesn’t ... (1 Comment)
2/6/19
Mac Pro with two screens. I like to fixate specific programs on screen.
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Loek
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2/5/19
To easily personalize emails I would like to mail merge some information. I currently have a selection of emails in Template but have to personalize them by hand – a tad tedious. Hope you can help maybe with a script?
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Marianne Guillois
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2/4/19
Gary,
I am trying to use javascript in script editor to get the value of a range of cells from a Numbers spreadsheet. AppleScript does it with:
tell application “Numbers”
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