I found this to be the case on other machines, as well. When that window opens you have to “Find Next” until it hits the word you want, THEN the Learn button is enabled. I would very much like to be able to use my My Book drive again for manual backups when I want. What is going on?When I go to save some documents in pages, the cursor automatically clicks in the tags bar and won’t click off of it, meaning I can’t access the save as menu.
It has been in the ‘genius ‘ shop as well as been helped(?) The trouble is, the more programs that do this, the more resources they take and the slower your computer boots up.Plus, if you only want to use that program occasionally, why have it sitting there doing nothing and taking up resources?Checking to see what apps are starting automatically is a breeze.Apps that appear in that center pane will automatically open when you start or reboot your Mac. The more programs you install onto your Mac, the more muddled the picture becomes. Do you have any of your own to share?
I have a Macbook Air and recently it's been opening random tabs that all say I need to clean my Mac and I've also ben getting pop-up ads on every website I'm on.
It’s useful on the iPhone and I expect it there, but there’s no need for it on the Mac.The Swiping features are inherent with a touchpad input device.Don’t use the touchpad and you won’t have those issues.Not true, with my Mac I use a Magic Mouse, and the swiping-issue is there as well. Keeping an eye on what boots automatically and what does not will ensure you’re not kept waiting when starting your machine.Got any other ways to stop apps opening on startup on Mac? Tell us about them below if you do!Disclaimer: Some pages on this site may include an affiliate link. There are many times that I have numerous ads that I need to place or 25 or more articles and I loved being able to color code them in my folder so I knew at a glance which ones I’d worked on and what I still needed to do.The magic mouse. Go Apple menu > System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > check “Reduce transparency”If you download free apps from the Mac App Store often, you may be tired of entering the Apple ID password constantly to complete a free purchase and download the app. Any way to merge the two so that the conversations on one platform are identical to those of the other platform?That’s a frequent question and one answered hereabouts.
Nothing I do seems to work.I just upgraded all our Macs to Sierra. A buddy of mine recently bought a Mac to use alongside his Windows desktop and after spending a couple of hours with him demonstrating some of the key differences between Windows and Mac OS, it struck me that other Mac newbies may find themselves in the same position.One of the things he wanted to know was how to stop apps opening on startup on Mac. I actually bought Outlook for Mac just to use that feature. !Recently if i am watching a movie or listening to music the volume on my MacBook Air reduces to the lowest and stays there. Join over 260,000 subscribers!
But OK, I can live with the dots and flags —except that I run out of colors in no time!As for icons: when I save a web adress to my desktop and folders, they appear and are sorted as “documents”—which —clearly, right?— they are not.You can add more than one coloured tag to a file, but agree not being able to edit tag colours is a bit backward.As for webpage aliases, they actually are a document of sorts. A MacBook or iMac can freeze while running certain apps with a symptom being unresponsive.
What a disaster. PLEASE can someone tell me how to stop the cursor jumping all over the place in High Sierra 10.13.2? My God how proud we were! Why is the email set up so difficult?Re: Why does a click not work as expected sometimes? No need for messy @ web docs littering my desktop.Note: Firefox alphabetizes bookmarks automatically.My MacBook Pro (Sierra 10.12.5) keeps randomly jumping to different places on documents as I type. which is pretty annoying when I'm trying to read through my paper. Have tried it for almost two years now and gets me to swear all the time. The coloured dots are simply not noticeable enough, and it was a feature that I found extremely useful.Since customizing folder icons is gone, try a great utility called Iconstix (But you can move them to put them in your liked order.There is a free app called SafariSort App which does this for you – including favourites and all your Folders.The spell checker is not good at all. The arrival of OSX was maddening, even to old timers like myself.
I’m trying to discover why, when I drag jpegs onto Pages documents and try to rearrange them, do they start bouncing back into different positions?Yes – Please bring back the coloured “fill” for file or folder titles. I’ve restarted and it still does it.