MacMost: Question and Answer Forum

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.


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11/8/18
I recently updated the operating system to Mojave on my MacBook Pro. Upon updating I could no longer access Adobe Reader nor could I successfully install a new version of Reader. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! —– Rob ... (5 Comments)
11/7/18
Can Terminal be used to change the default .HEIC extension now used by Mojave to default JPG? The HEIC extension is not widely accepted and probably won’t be for some time. —– Steve Housley ... (5 Comments)
11/7/18
I have a thumb drive that I converted to APFS. How do I convert back to FAT32? Disk utility no longer shows that option. I have the latest Mojave release. I have iMac 2013 —– Barry ... (9 Comments)
11/5/18
Using Mojave on MacBook Pro, I’m trying to create a disjunction search. Specifically, I can create and save a search for File Contains ‘Guide’ and I can create and save a search for File Contains ‘Manual,’ but I want to create a search such as File ... (1 Comment)
11/4/18
Using an iPhone 6 with latest operating system for iPhone 6. —– Shirley ... (2 Comments)
11/4/18
A few months ago while running High Sierra, I changed my Mac Mail preferences using a Terminal command so that mail would always show attachments as “Icons.” Through the termninal command — defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes ... (1 Comment)
11/3/18
I have over 100 albums. I’d like to quickly go to an album rather than scrolling down to find one. Is there a search tool for this? —– Pete Kroner ... (4 Comments)
11/3/18
Some how Booking.com icon got to my LaunchPad. How does one remove this (macOS High Sierra)? I tried pressing to reveal the X on the various icons but this does not have an X. —– Fernando Gonçalves ... (1 Comment)
11/3/18
I set up a weekly reminder on my iPhone calendar, but now I no longer want the reminder. It was seasonal. I can’t figure out how to delete the event. Also, I see there are several calendars. Where do they come from? What does (null) mean on some of them? —– Jack ... (3 Comments)
11/3/18
Mac Numbers question: is it possible to select multiple worksheets, and make calculations in 3 dimensions? For example: a sheet for every month of 1 year, with detailed daily incomes and expenses. At the end of the year I want to make (with formula vertical lookup) one table with ... (3 Comments)
11/3/18
I inset functions for stock quotes and exchange rates in a Numbers sheet an it works fine, except it never refreshes the data. If I open the sheet after few days, it’s still showing the same quotes. Is there a way to refresh the quotes ? Maybe when you reopen the Numbers ... (2 Comments)
11/1/18
When I am in a site, say for shopping, and the information for auto fill pops up, but it is not current, mostly a credit card numbers, how and where can I change the auto fill info? —– Greg ... (4 Comments)
10/31/18
My keyboard must be damaged as I cannot use comma and period keys when typing on Macbook/ Gary suggested put keyboard on desktop and use that/ I had one on there but it just disappeared today/ Can anyone please help???? Have tried downloading a couple but they will not ... (2 Comments)
10/31/18
Gary, have only iMac (Mojave) HomePod, AppleTV 4K with Basic Alcatel Senior Flip Phone. How can I open Home App on iMac and update my HomePod sometimes Siri is dead. have to re-boot (unplugging power cord to recognize my WiFi). —– Richard ... (3 Comments)
10/31/18
Does MacMost have a tutorial on Using Mail Drop? —– Greg ... (3 Comments)
10/26/18
I used to swipe to fx a currency converter and weather on a special desktop. It’s gone with the wind on Mojave. —– Lars Kjeldsen ... (3 Comments)
10/25/18
Currently running OSX 10.11.6 on my MBA 2013 and Mac Pro 2006 and I want to make certain USB drive(s) unremovable like the internal drives, so they can’t be accidentally ejected from Finder. —– Michael Mulhern ... (1 Comment)
10/25/18
I have not been storing documents like taxes, health care related reports, financial account reports, etc. in any cloud based storage systems because it seems that a lot of them have been hacked. I have the documents that contain our social security numbers, financial account ... (2 Comments)
10/25/18
When I am on yahoo news and want to click a site, sometimes I get “beap.gemini.yahoo.com”. Which stops me from going to the site. Aggravating for this 76 year-old lady. —– Carole Fedor ... (2 Comments)
10/25/18
Hello, each time I open mail on my mac the size of the folder, emails and preview columns are back to a sort of default value. How can I save the column size once for all instead of re-adjusting them each time? Thanks —– Thierry ... (3 Comments)