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.2/3/19
Every time I restart my MacBook Pro (2015, latest Mojave), along with my actual Macintosh HD icon another icon literally named “Mystery” shows on the Desktop. It shows it to be a 1 TB drive, as is my actual drive. It shows it to contain almost the same, but not quite, ... (3 Comments)
2/3/19
I know there are already lots of Q and A about icloud drive. Here’s another: I’m running El Capitan on my imac. I have a Documents folder in my home folder. Is there a difference if I “move” or “copy” that Documents folder to icloud drive? ... (2 Comments)
2/3/19
Previously one could press the space bar to open photos, now it does not.
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Don Kryzak
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1/31/19
I am trying to tutor on line by FaceTime or google go to meetings. With my iPad Pro and Apple Pencil I want what I write on my screen to be visible to student on the video conference as I am writing. How do I do this and Thank You
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Arnold Brown
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1/31/19
I want to paste an icon on to a folder – my shortcuts folder, to see it more readily. I have tried opening my “Bookmarks” folder with control-info and dragging an icon into the the upper left corner to replace the plain blue icon, but this doesn’t ... (3 Comments)
1/31/19
I used the iMovie app on my iPhone to make a video with pics I took and chose the music the app offered. Facebook won’t post as they said the music belonged to someone else (copyright etc). Why is the music offered in this iMovie app if it is illegal to use ... (3 Comments)
1/31/19
In the January 2019 edition of MacLife there were directions about cleaning up, but can’t find find a copy anywhere. It has to be simple because I’m over 90 years of age.
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Don Schimmels
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1/31/19
I have the Do Not Disturb feature set when I go to bed. However I have configured it to allow calls from people in my favorites to go through. Can this be done with Notifications? There are a few apps that alert me to things like water leaks or emergencies that I would like to ... (1 Comment)
1/26/19
I would like to delete some of the extensions that are installed. I just don’t know where to look for the extension folder.
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Richard D.
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1/26/19
I have a Numbers spreadsheet in which I enter items based on Date and Time. So the list might look like this(although in reality I usually have about 10 items per day):
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:00
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:00
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:00
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:00
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 ... (4 Comments)
1/24/19
Do you have any recommendations on the best way to view MP4 video files on both my iPhone7 or my iPad Air 2?
Whenever someone sends me an email with a MP4 file attached, I can see that there is an attachment to the email, but can find no way of viewing it. For interest, I can ... (4 Comments)
1/24/19
We made photos we took from cruises and special vacations into “book” using the Mac application. They were not inexpensive, but they looked great and the application was flexible and easy to use. We just learned Mac had discontinued printing the books. The other two ... (1 Comment)
1/24/19
In a Q&A from a couple weeks ago you recommended against having local mailboxes in Mac Mail. I have a bunch of old local mailboxes On My Mac and intend on changing them over to server-based (right terminology?) gmail labels. My question concerns the contents of my existing ... (4 Comments)
1/24/19
In the past when I have migrated from an old Mac to a new one I have just let the Migration utilities do their thing because I am not sure what folders are imperative to move. Can you guide me through this?
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Rhona R
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1/23/19
I already have albums in my Photos App on my iPad. I just discovered how to make a Folder in the Photos App on iPad. Can I bring in an Album I’ve already recreated into this Folder? TY
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Lauri Kunzman
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1/23/19
I assume on the iPhone that photos on the camera roll and in Photos are duplicates if iCloud storage is on and thus they take up twice the storage. How can you delete camera roll without deleting the same photos in Photos and iCloud? Thanks.
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John Kueck
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1/23/19
Is there a way to select cells or a range of cells in Numbers using shortcuts? I’m new to Shortcuts and don’t know where to start. The reason I’d like to do this is
I have built a fairly complex spreadsheet in Numbers that combines output from various resources that are not ... (3 Comments)
1/23/19
I get a sound notification when I open the Junk Mailbox in Mail on my iPhone 7 iOS 12.1.2.
No other mailbox makes a sound when opened. In Notifications I have chosen Sound “None”.
I haven’t been able to figure out how to stop this.
Thank you for any help you can ... (2 Comments)
1/23/19
I often use clipboard to move text between documents, is there a memory in clipboard where it stores say the last 5 or 10 clips for use later?
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Davey
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1/21/19
I got the new iPad Pro for Christmas. I want to put some specific movies on it for an international flight. The movies are in iTunes on my Mac, but not purchased from the iTunes store. My Mac doesn’t have a USB-C port, but I thought I remembered that it could by synced ... (2 Comments)
