Your videos are brilliant, Gary. I've had Mac for nearly 30 years and yet I learn something new in every one of your videos. Love seeing your photos of NZ too!
Great video. One thing I found works very well with dragging from a place that you can see to a place that you cannot see: Start dragging and then press Cmd + Tab (the app switcher) to move to the app you want it to drop in. Similarly, you can hold your cursor above an icon in the dock dock - you wait a little and then the app opens, then you drop in its window.
Gary is the master communicator for Apple on the Net....always clear, always relevant, always precise and best of all, succinct....what more do you want, I enquire?
The “Right Click” or “Context Menu,” via the mouse, is probably the most (underused ) powerful function on the Mac. It’s the one that most Mac users have a hard time remembering yet it is so fundamental to having the best and most productive Mac experience. Thanks Gary for bringing it to all of our attention once again. P.S The article picture, “Stonehenge, Astronomy Picture of the Day”-in the background- is stunningly beautiful.
Thank you...but it seems when I try something...something else screws up...and I can't get back to where I was...the video you did a while back on returning to where you were was a great video...as so is this one...I wish I had you ability to remember where everything is....you amaze me.
I think this is most important and a very useful video tutorial! I have mastered only two of them. But that’s okay. I’m still learning. Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️
And don't forget you can also copy and paste between Apple devices. Copy on iPhone or iPad, then paste on Mac and vice versa. I love that Universal Clipboard!
Thanks so much for pointing out the search with the pointer on the menu item. I have severe visual problems sometimes when I can't see what I'm looking for even though its right there.
I recently discovered your channel and it’s very good . I plan to buy a MacBook soon. These videos will help me by using the MacBook. You provide some great and useful information . Thank you
as a longtime Windows user (no programming, just basic things), going to a Mac can be confusing at first. I started looking how to do things the Windows way (by clicking on commands) and was disappointed how you have to go from bottom to top, from left to right to get simple things done. Windows can get more things done by right clicking the mouse (as far as I know). But seeing your videos I found out many things can be done by just dragging files over, without even the need to click commands. It will be a sometimes frustrating learning process for me, but I'm sure your videos will be there to get me through. Thanks.
Thanks. Your videos are very useful. One of the frustrations with the menu bar for those who use big screens, with tiles windows…if the active window is the right, the menu is always on the left…a long way to move the mouse. Would be better if Mac sticks the app specific part of the menu to the window.
Excellent help, Gary! As a 30+ year user of Windows, I recently bought a MacBook Pro. I’m very happy that I have switched but there is a bit of a learning curve. One issue I need help with: how to select say, 300 photos from my SD card, then copy them to a folder on my Mac or in iCloud? This was so simple in Windows and probably is on the Mac as well…
So you want to move them as files, not bring them into the Photos app as part of your Photos library? Then all you need to do is drag-and-drop. The SD card would be just another external drive. Open it up in the Finder and drag-and-drop those files to another location in the Finder like you would when moving any other file.
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Great. Thank you very much, Gary, for this very, very useful presentation.
Thank you for your work. I'm a 73 years old man and, let me tell you, there was a lot of change and progress since I'd learned typewriting and shorthand writing in 1966.
Thank you. I was going to post a comment as to how drag and drop wasn't working for me in iMovie to bring in media. I wanted to make sure I was describing my issue correctly, so I launched iMovie, tried to drag in an image from a Finder window, and...it worked! Then I tried dragging in an audio file and...it worked! Not sure what I was doing before that it didn't work, but somehow just seeing drag and drop just working led me to do it such that it worked. 🤷🏻♂️
Cool, yup these are the most super important subtools of this amazing Apple Mac and macOS super tool. I'd love to add Redo shortcut: Shift-Command-Z which is useful for comparison and for changing the mind with Undo. God bless Apple, Sir Wozniak for inventing the first practical personal computer for the rest of us.
Gary, your video is so useful when it is played at .75x speed! When students are absorbing new terms, and they are auditorily presented at a very rapid rate it can be very difficult for them to process. Just something to think about to increase the number of your subscribers.
I agree so much with you , brilliant videos but so fast , and have said so in comments . Please tell me how to slow the video down . Presumably a utube setting ??
Hi Sir, I really like your video recording style and presenting style; it's so minimal. Could you please make a video about "How you make your video/ How you record and edit your video?"
Great presentation. Thank you! This channel provides the most genuine and authentic tips compared to “sponsored” tips in some channels. Wonder why so few people subscribed?
Hi Gary, another great video, thank you very much. I have a question, if a file such as an mp4 for example, is copied a few times, does it lose any detail or data? Thanks again.👍🏻
No. Digital files are 1s and 0s and when you make a copy it is exact. But when you open a video into an app and export it (which uses compression) each time you do that it will lose a little quality.
It is nice to see some of the basics reviewed from time to time. I have used Macs since 2009, but often forget things I don’t use often. This is nice as a refresher, but really great for new users. I suspect Windows 11 may move a few more to a Mac once they find their hardware won’t run Windows 11. 😁. I am curious to see what happens with Parallels on my Mac if I try to install Win 11.
I've had a Mac for 10 years and I find there's still a lot to learn. Definitely good to refresh the basics and here and there, one can pick up a fresh pearl of wisdom!
Your help videos are awesome. I recently converted from Microsoft to Mac. Doing Ok with it. Not very good with filing and finding files...YET. I use the Trash can :-\ more then I should. Drag the file into the trash and then out of trash into the desired location. Best thing about Mac, I don't pay a monthly fee for a word processor/spreadsheet, integrates nicely with my phone and other Apple products and if I need help...YOU or the Genius bar is available at my local mall.
Not sure what you mean by "Drag the file into the trash and then out of trash into the desired location" but you definitely shouldn't use the Trash for anything other than deleting files.
I wash Apple was more dictatorial about requiring fundamentals. For example, I often want to paste text from one place to another without formatting. Not all apps use the same key combinations. My experience is that sometimes a drag and drop moves a file and sometimes it only copies a file. It's too late for this, but it drives me crazy that there is little consistency for how Cmd is used and how Ctrl is used. Remembering the dog's breakfast of seemingly random key combinations is daunting.
Using Stoplight I brought up a file in Pages. But I can't see a way to view a path in order to find what folder the file is located. Knowing where a file is stored on the hard drive seems essential to me. How can I do this?
Two things: Save a click and use a universal function by setting the secondary function to single finger right click on the track pad and set the right click on the mouse for the secondary function. All other trackpad gestures stay the same. I haven't used a (STILL dopey) Mac mouse for over a decade. They still have right and left clicks. I checked. Also, a FANTASTIC feature that makes the desktop serve a useful purpose is to set it to use "Stacks". A universal opinion is that having folders and items on the desktop is a useless OOOOOLD holdout from the earliest GUIs. Desktop is a Folder in the finder, just like any other. Setting Stacks view on the desk at least gives you visual USEFUL feature with information about the stack that you can interact with with the mouse if you want, without opening the finder. It's like a real "desk".
Default in what way? If you click on a TH-cam link in Chrome, you'll stay in Chrome. Do you want to be able to click on a TH-cam link in Safari and then visit the link in Chrome? No easy way to do that. Maybe a third-party app?
You'd have to use some video effects software for that. I think either Apple Motion or Adobe After Effects would do it. Depends on the type of effect you want and your experience with that kind of software though.
Sending this to my 69 year old mother! I can't understand how she can't learn mac same with my father have literally trying to train my dad to double click and copy paste for over 20 years. Can't make this up
Hi, I use a MBP and external drives, I always see all documents in the recents tab in finder, does this mean I have doubling up on storage space and an I safe to delete the Recent tab regularly without losing these files, photo’s and video’s etc? Thanks and I find your videos so helpful. Cheers
@@Stopreadingmyusername23 yes, that’s the real amazing part. The whole Apple ecosystem. Everything talks to everything. It’s super efficient. Enjoy :-)
4:30 ¿Is there a change in the last Catalina for the mouse settings? The right click is just not working. To get the contextual menu I have to hit ^ + right click (like in the macbook mousepads, like you do as the first way). Or is something wrong with my hardware? In Preferences, I have already set up the right click as Secondary Click. I don‘ understand why is this not working as expected.
Dragging a photo from the Photos app onto the Desktop's drop zone shows a green plus sign, but when I release, it does not work. From the Finder, it does, but from the Photos app it doesn't 😞
Hi. do you know if Apple took away the ability to scroll up and down with the arrow keys on a page. I just updated to the montererry and it won't scroll any longer
Definitely still there, but it depends on the web page itself. If the page does something else with the arrows, or it is intercepting all keys, then it won't work. Try it on a Wikipedia page for example.
Question when your drag and drop certain items into an email the item is displayed others you just get the Icon. A picture is a good example . You get the picture displayed which is a pain when you are putting text round it. The solution is - right click and select ‘View as Icon’. Is there a way to make it do this by default?
I don't know of any setting to force it every time. Also keep in mind that it doesn't matter. The recipient will be viewing the message in their client app (Outlook for Windows, mail app in Android, Yahoo on the web, Gmail web, and a thousand other possibilities) and their client app will determine how they see it.
There are only two sizes: the default and what you get when you set the scroll bars to always be there. Your best bet is to use the trackpad to scroll and not rely on the scroll bars at all.
Hey Gary, it appears not every MacOS app allows you to customize the toolbar with both icons and labels. Is this correct or am I missing something. IE Finder does, but Notes doesn't. Thanks for all the tips. Great content as always! :-)
Still looking for a specific MacOS Ventura screensaver. It was my favourite but disappeared when the next MacOS (Sonoma) was installed ... never to be found again..I don't keep names , I choose it once and it just was there, all the time, until it wasn't anymore. 😢 Any tips?
My new MacBook Air has a twenty four hour clock in the Menu bar that I would like toi be a twelve opr clock but can't out how to change it. I too am here in the denver Colorado area.
@@floydthorne6444 So you have System Settings, Control Center, Clock Options..., "Use a 24-hour clock" switched off and it still shows a 24-hour clock in the Menu Bar? Maybe a regional setting? What's your Region set to?
Thank you very much. Hi Gary, could I ask you to discuss one topic about the storage in iMac. I have a 1 TB iMac with a fusion drive and am the primary user. I am running out of storage space at the moment, though I have already store most of the data like photos, movies and app datas like iMovie, keynote etc to ext drive. When I click on the storage of my Mac, there is 398G in "other users" and 570G in "other". However I can't physically delete these folders because they are dimmed. I greatly appreciate if you could discuss this topic in your tutorial. Thanks in advance.
"Other" is not a location. It is a category. Don't pay attention to that if it isn't useful to you. Instead, start in your User folder and dig down to see what is in your folders and do a spring cleaning. Also, "Other Users" would be other accounts on your Mac. So you'd need to log into those accounts to see what is there.
@@macmost Thanks Gary. I did check the other users folders which are all empty. Also I have uninstalled those programs which I don't use. However not enough space to work around.
@@tyik If it shows 398GB for "other users" then there is something in there. If you can't find it, then I recommend getting it to an expert for a firsthand look.
One thing I noted was when I click on the User and click "Get Info". There wasn't much data space unless there were hidden files. However I managed to delete the "User" account and got 400Gb back. Thank you Master Gary.
You videos are excellent BUT- how can you link to either a document or a file from another document. For example, I have a file named "help me.pdf" how can I put the name and address of the file into a document so that when I click it, it either takes me to the folder or, better, opens the document. Is this possible?????
If you are building PDFs using a PDF creation tool, check to see if there is a link-to-file feature, though I don't know of one that does this. Otherwise, you can't really link from file to file like that. There are exceptions, like you can use a link such as file:///Users/username/folder/file.jpg (yes, three /// at the start) in Pages as a link, then when you export as a PDF it will work if you Control+click on it and select Open Link and the file is local, and it is something a web browser can handle, and you never move the file, etc. Not that useful.
there is one thing missing from this tutorial: How to to do CUT + PASTE like in Windows. You can copy with CMD+C and to paste to destination with CMD+OPTION(ALT)+V and this will remove the original copy where you copied the file from. This is the equivalent of Windows CTRL+X + CTRL+V - stupid of apple not to include this shortcut.
Your videos are brilliant, Gary. I've had Mac for nearly 30 years and yet I learn something new in every one of your videos. Love seeing your photos of NZ too!
One of my most used action when pasting text is SHIFT+OPT+CMD+V. This pasts the text without the format.
Thanks. Same keys when using excel?
Great video. One thing I found works very well with dragging from a place that you can see to a place that you cannot see: Start dragging and then press Cmd + Tab (the app switcher) to move to the app you want it to drop in. Similarly, you can hold your cursor above an icon in the dock dock - you wait a little and then the app opens, then you drop in its window.
Even though I’ve been using the Mac for years, I always find little gems of information in your videos. Many thanks, Gary!
Me too!
Gary is the master communicator for Apple on the Net....always clear, always relevant, always precise and best of all, succinct....what more do you want, I enquire?
i've used a mac for years now and i always find something new on your videos - thank you.
The “Right Click” or “Context Menu,” via the mouse, is probably the most (underused ) powerful function on the Mac. It’s the one that most Mac users have a hard time remembering yet it is so fundamental to having the best and most productive Mac experience.
Thanks Gary for bringing it to all of our attention once again.
P.S The article picture, “Stonehenge, Astronomy Picture of the Day”-in the background- is stunningly beautiful.
Thank you...but it seems when I try something...something else screws up...and I can't get back to where I was...the video you did a while back on returning to where you were was a great video...as so is this one...I wish I had you ability to remember where everything is....you amaze me.
Thank you so much for this video. I sold a 2011 iMac to my sister in law. She is unsure, but this video will help her a lot.
I think this is most important and a very useful video tutorial! I have mastered only two of them. But that’s okay. I’m still learning. Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️
And don't forget you can also copy and paste between Apple devices. Copy on iPhone or iPad, then paste on Mac and vice versa. I love that Universal Clipboard!
There is always something new to learn. You prove it.
Gary, you are an excellent teacher 👨🏫!
Thanks so much for pointing out the search with the pointer on the menu item. I have severe visual problems sometimes when I can't see what I'm looking for even though its right there.
The move copy was a huge help....iv been looking for cut to move photos of USB to drive.
Option command V to move copy 👍
You channel is really informative and helped me a lot with my windows to Mac transition
Thanks Gary. COuld you please make a video on who to changed the default sign-in/lockscreen wallpaper? Thanks a lot.
Very useful for new in Mac like me. Thanks
Thank you for posting Gary. The video is very helpful 👍
I recently discovered your channel and it’s very good . I plan to buy a MacBook soon. These videos will help me by using the MacBook. You provide some great and useful information . Thank you
as a longtime Windows user (no programming, just basic things), going to a Mac can be confusing at first. I started looking how to do things the Windows way (by clicking on commands) and was disappointed how you have to go from bottom to top, from left to right to get simple things done. Windows can get more things done by right clicking the mouse (as far as I know). But seeing your videos I found out many things can be done by just dragging files over, without even the need to click commands. It will be a sometimes frustrating learning process for me, but I'm sure your videos will be there to get me through. Thanks.
Thanks. Your videos are very useful. One of the frustrations with the menu bar for those who use big screens, with tiles windows…if the active window is the right, the menu is always on the left…a long way to move the mouse. Would be better if Mac sticks the app specific part of the menu to the window.
Learned a new Apple term, context menu, thanks Gary!!!
Excellent help, Gary! As a 30+ year user of Windows, I recently bought a MacBook Pro. I’m very happy that I have switched but there is a bit of a learning curve.
One issue I need help with: how to select say, 300 photos from my SD card, then copy them to a folder on my Mac or in iCloud? This was so simple in Windows and probably is on the Mac as well…
So you want to move them as files, not bring them into the Photos app as part of your Photos library? Then all you need to do is drag-and-drop. The SD card would be just another external drive. Open it up in the Finder and drag-and-drop those files to another location in the Finder like you would when moving any other file.
Great. Thank you very much, Gary, for this very, very useful presentation.
8:45 That was new for me with "move item" and is very helpful. Thank You.
Thank you for Sharing.
Happy 2023!!!🥳🥳🥳
Greetings from Cabo Verde Islands.
Cheers😃😃
you made me feel smart, i was aware of all of this. came to learn left feeling smart, thanks gary
Gary! I want to scream. I have used Mac for many years, and here I learned a handful of things I didn’t know. Big Thanks!!!
Thank you for your work. I'm a 73 years old man and, let me tell you, there was a lot of change and progress since I'd learned typewriting and shorthand writing in 1966.
@@nosredna2 Pitman!
Whatever I have (and want) to learn your teaching.
Thank you. I was going to post a comment as to how drag and drop wasn't working for me in iMovie to bring in media. I wanted to make sure I was describing my issue correctly, so I launched iMovie, tried to drag in an image from a Finder window, and...it worked! Then I tried dragging in an audio file and...it worked! Not sure what I was doing before that it didn't work, but somehow just seeing drag and drop just working led me to do it such that it worked. 🤷🏻♂️
Always something more than expected.
Thanks Gary
Thank you for making these!
Cool, yup these are the most super important subtools of this amazing Apple Mac and macOS super tool. I'd love to add Redo shortcut: Shift-Command-Z which is useful for comparison and for changing the mind with Undo.
God bless Apple, Sir Wozniak for inventing the first practical personal computer for the rest of us.
Great tips, as always Gary. Thanks.
Gary, your video is so useful when it is played at .75x speed! When students are absorbing new terms, and they are auditorily presented at a very rapid rate it can be very difficult for them to process. Just something to think about to increase the number of your subscribers.
I agree so much with you , brilliant videos but so fast , and have said so in comments . Please tell me how to slow the video down . Presumably a utube setting ??
No-nonsense helps! Thanks for all your older iMAC tips, too!
I have learn a lot from you about iMac computer Thank you
Thanks mastering these short cuts will improve productivity and accuracy. Best regards, Shirish Balekundri, Affiliate Marketing Expert, Singapore
So well done! Many thanks,Gary!
Hi Sir, I really like your video recording style and presenting style; it's so minimal. Could you please make a video about "How you make your video/ How you record and edit your video?"
Great info for me, Thank you!
Another great video. Thanks Gary.
Great presentation. Thank you! This channel provides the most genuine and authentic tips compared to “sponsored” tips in some channels. Wonder why so few people subscribed?
Hi Gary, another great video, thank you very much. I have a question, if a file such as an mp4 for example, is copied a few times, does it lose any detail or data? Thanks again.👍🏻
No. Digital files are 1s and 0s and when you make a copy it is exact. But when you open a video into an app and export it (which uses compression) each time you do that it will lose a little quality.
For the first time of many I actually knew all of this!!!
It is nice to see some of the basics reviewed from time to time. I have used Macs since 2009, but often forget things I don’t use often. This is nice as a refresher, but really great for new users. I suspect Windows 11 may move a few more to a Mac once they find their hardware won’t run Windows 11. 😁. I am curious to see what happens with Parallels on my Mac if I try to install Win 11.
I've had a Mac for 10 years and I find there's still a lot to learn. Definitely good to refresh the basics and here and there, one can pick up a fresh pearl of wisdom!
Great tutorials, Gary, they are very educative and useful.
Your help videos are awesome. I recently converted from Microsoft to Mac. Doing Ok with it. Not very good with filing and finding files...YET. I use the Trash can :-\ more then I should. Drag the file into the trash and then out of trash into the desired location. Best thing about Mac, I don't pay a monthly fee for a word processor/spreadsheet, integrates nicely with my phone and other Apple products and if I need help...YOU or the Genius bar is available at my local mall.
Not sure what you mean by "Drag the file into the trash and then out of trash into the desired location" but you definitely shouldn't use the Trash for anything other than deleting files.
Keep up the great work. Really helps
Thank you so much for this.
For ONCE I am in the know about something Gary is covering.... feels very good.
I've been using a MAC since the LC in the very early-1990s.
So I am a little master I think 😅 Thanks, Gary, The Great MacMaster, for next awesome video! 😎
I wash Apple was more dictatorial about requiring fundamentals. For example, I often want to paste text from one place to another without formatting. Not all apps use the same key combinations. My experience is that sometimes a drag and drop moves a file and sometimes it only copies a file. It's too late for this, but it drives me crazy that there is little consistency for how Cmd is used and how Ctrl is used. Remembering the dog's breakfast of seemingly random key combinations is daunting.
Amazing tips. as always. keep going.
THANK YOU SO MUCH A BIG HELP
I was in a band called, “Dragon Drop”😊
Also CMD+Shift+a can fix an accident in undoing
Thanks...really helpful
Using Stoplight I brought up a file in Pages. But I can't see a way to view a path in order to find what folder the file is located. Knowing where a file is stored on the hard drive seems essential to me. How can I do this?
Two things:
Save a click and use a universal function by setting the secondary function to single finger right click on the track pad and set the right click on the mouse for the secondary function. All other trackpad gestures stay the same. I haven't used a (STILL dopey) Mac mouse for over a decade. They still have right and left clicks. I checked.
Also, a FANTASTIC feature that makes the desktop serve a useful purpose is to set it to use "Stacks". A universal opinion is that having folders and items on the desktop is a useless OOOOOLD holdout from the earliest GUIs. Desktop is a Folder in the finder, just like any other. Setting Stacks view on the desk at least gives you visual USEFUL feature with information about the stack that you can interact with with the mouse if you want, without opening the finder. It's like a real "desk".
Thanks Gary.
How do you default TH-cam to chrome without making chrome your primary browser?
Default in what way? If you click on a TH-cam link in Chrome, you'll stay in Chrome. Do you want to be able to click on a TH-cam link in Safari and then visit the link in Chrome? No easy way to do that. Maybe a third-party app?
yoo gary, coud you do a video about how to create a music visualizer for a youtube video? as always great content!
You'd have to use some video effects software for that. I think either Apple Motion or Adobe After Effects would do it. Depends on the type of effect you want and your experience with that kind of software though.
Congratulations this video is about to have 100k
Makes my head spin!
Sending this to my 69 year old mother! I can't understand how she can't learn mac same with my father have literally trying to train my dad to double click and copy paste for over 20 years. Can't make this up
informative video, thanks Gary
You are my GURU.
Hi, I use a MBP and external drives, I always see all documents in the recents tab in finder, does this mean I have doubling up on storage space and an I safe to delete the Recent tab regularly without losing these files, photo’s and video’s etc? Thanks and I find your videos so helpful. Cheers
See th-cam.com/video/9bY9cDSRZxc/w-d-xo.html
Perfect, thanks 🙏
And this is why when I have enough money my next computer will most likely be a Mac :)
I’ll be money we’ll spent. I made the switch to Mac in 2011 and never looked back even once.
@@raedbilbessi4397 Got my Mac in November and I’m loving how simple it is to use! Then the integration with my iPhone and iPad is amazing!
@@Stopreadingmyusername23 yes, that’s the real amazing part. The whole Apple ecosystem. Everything talks to everything. It’s super efficient. Enjoy :-)
Nice 👌 information ℹ️ vlog ❤
hi Gary, please how to make toggle list on pages ( almost alike that of notion)?
Toggle list? Not sure what you mean by that.
Thank you 👍🏼
Thank You 🙏🏻
4:30 ¿Is there a change in the last Catalina for the mouse settings? The right click is just not working. To get the contextual menu I have to hit ^ + right click (like in the macbook mousepads, like you do as the first way). Or is something wrong with my hardware? In Preferences, I have already set up the right click as Secondary Click. I don‘ understand why is this not working as expected.
Dragging a photo from the Photos app onto the Desktop's drop zone shows a green plus sign, but when I release, it does not work. From the Finder, it does, but from the Photos app it doesn't 😞
Try dragging to a specific location in a Finder window instead.
Hi. do you know if Apple took away the ability to scroll up and down with the arrow keys on a page. I just updated to the montererry and it won't scroll any longer
Definitely still there, but it depends on the web page itself. If the page does something else with the arrows, or it is intercepting all keys, then it won't work. Try it on a Wikipedia page for example.
Question when your drag and drop certain items into an email the item is displayed others you just get the Icon. A picture is a good example . You get the picture displayed which is a pain when you are putting text round it. The solution is - right click and select ‘View as Icon’. Is there a way to make it do this by default?
I don't know of any setting to force it every time. Also keep in mind that it doesn't matter. The recipient will be viewing the message in their client app (Outlook for Windows, mail app in Android, Yahoo on the web, Gmail web, and a thousand other possibilities) and their client app will determine how they see it.
Hi Gary what is the use of alpha in(arrange section) of Mac pages app? Does it used for spacing or arranging the text.
It is for if the image has an alpha channel (transparency) and how much that should be used when wrapping text.
Can I change the width of the scrolling bars in finder window or any other apps? it's very thin and I need to make it wider
There are only two sizes: the default and what you get when you set the scroll bars to always be there. Your best bet is to use the trackpad to scroll and not rely on the scroll bars at all.
I am not able to copyor move files to external drive ATTACHED to my router.
Hey Gary, it appears not every MacOS app allows you to customize the toolbar with both icons and labels. Is this correct or am I missing something. IE Finder does, but Notes doesn't. Thanks for all the tips. Great content as always! :-)
Some apps do not, especially some third-party ones. But Notes does. Well, you can customize the toolbar. You can't switch to labels-only.
Still looking for a specific MacOS Ventura screensaver. It was my favourite but disappeared when the next MacOS (Sonoma) was installed ... never to be found again..I don't keep names , I choose it once and it just was there, all the time, until it wasn't anymore. 😢 Any tips?
Can you describe it?
@@macmost it was a bit like starry dots coming and going. Very subtle and calming .nothing too flashy. Sorry, that's all I can remember
@@macmost and thanks for asking!
@@mvl6827 Sorry, I don't remember anything like that.
@@macmost Thanks anyway, I will keep searching... ✨
My new MacBook Air has a twenty four hour clock in the Menu bar that I would like toi be a twelve opr clock but can't out how to change it. I too am here in the denver Colorado area.
Go to System Settings, Control Center, then look for the Options button next to the Menu Bar clock settings.
@@macmost first of, I am new to Mac but, I follow your instructions above and it still shows the 24 Hour time. (as of now 18:23).
@@floydthorne6444 So you have System Settings, Control Center, Clock Options..., "Use a 24-hour clock" switched off and it still shows a 24-hour clock in the Menu Bar? Maybe a regional setting? What's your Region set to?
@@macmost I live in Thornton, CO.
@@floydthorne6444 Ah, yes, right. Well if the 24-hour clock setting is off, maybe try a restart? That's my last idea.
Opt + cmd + V 👍 moves file. Many Thanks
Thank you very much. Hi Gary, could I ask you to discuss one topic about the storage in iMac. I have a 1 TB iMac with a fusion drive and am the primary user. I am running out of storage space at the moment, though I have already store most of the data like photos, movies and app datas like iMovie, keynote etc to ext drive. When I click on the storage of my Mac, there is 398G in "other users" and 570G in "other". However I can't physically delete these folders because they are dimmed. I greatly appreciate if you could discuss this topic in your tutorial. Thanks in advance.
"Other" is not a location. It is a category. Don't pay attention to that if it isn't useful to you. Instead, start in your User folder and dig down to see what is in your folders and do a spring cleaning. Also, "Other Users" would be other accounts on your Mac. So you'd need to log into those accounts to see what is there.
@@macmost Thanks Gary. I did check the other users folders which are all empty. Also I have uninstalled those programs which I don't use. However not enough space to work around.
@@tyik If it shows 398GB for "other users" then there is something in there. If you can't find it, then I recommend getting it to an expert for a firsthand look.
@@macmost Thank you Gary.
One thing I noted was when I click on the User and click "Get Info". There wasn't much data space unless there were hidden files. However I managed to delete the "User" account and got 400Gb back. Thank you Master Gary.
I'm horrible at shortcuts. Cmd + C or V is about my functional capacity.
damn you good bro. i know some but some of those kind of wow situation
You videos are excellent BUT- how can you link to either a document or a file from another document. For example, I have a file named "help me.pdf" how can I put the name and address of the file into a document so that when I click it, it either takes me to the folder or, better, opens the document. Is this possible?????
If you are building PDFs using a PDF creation tool, check to see if there is a link-to-file feature, though I don't know of one that does this. Otherwise, you can't really link from file to file like that. There are exceptions, like you can use a link such as file:///Users/username/folder/file.jpg (yes, three /// at the start) in Pages as a link, then when you export as a PDF it will work if you Control+click on it and select Open Link and the file is local, and it is something a web browser can handle, and you never move the file, etc. Not that useful.
My QuickTime Player isn't working well. Is it possible to uninstall it and reinstall it. Do you know of any fix Gary?
No, it comes with macOS. Even you could uninstall and reinstall, it would be exactly the same. Can you be more specific than "isn't working well?"
@@macmost Its ok I formatted HD and reloaded Ventura. Like a new computer. Thx again Gary and a Happy new year to you.
there is one thing missing from this tutorial: How to to do CUT + PASTE like in Windows. You can copy with CMD+C and to paste to destination with CMD+OPTION(ALT)+V and this will remove the original copy where you copied the file from. This is the equivalent of Windows CTRL+X + CTRL+V - stupid of apple not to include this shortcut.
What can I do about annoying popups??
"Popups" can mean a lot of things. Can you describe them?
My Help option no longer works. It says unavailable. How do I get it to be available?
Which option do you mean? Are you seeing an error message -- if so when does it appear and what does it say exactly?
@@macmost it seems to have cleared up. But a window popped up that Help was not available.
My problem is navigating between windows of the same app
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@@macmost thank you!
I spent way too much trying to figure out why it's called "Dragon Drop"
Who knew? ❤
I need help
How to slide download photos?
Not sure what you mean by "slide download."
@@macmostOkay no problem I have learned from your videos.
So thankyousomuch for this
and your videos were really helpful❤️