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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11/5/18
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)
10/24/18
In the Apple Mail app I no longer see a Reply or a Forward icon in the preview column. Is there a way of adding that feature back in. —– Don Kryzak ... (6 Comments)
10/23/18
Since I installed Mojave on my iMAC, the speed of accessing anything has slowed down considerably. My iMAC has 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7, with 8 GB memory. . Mojave version 10.14. Do I need more memory??? THANKS. —– Teri ... (6 Comments)
10/23/18
I have a Numbers document that I want to activate, make a selection, copy they activate a second window and paste it in, using AppleScript. I can bring the document to the front and make the selection, but not copy the selection. This can only be done when the document is active, ... (3 Comments)