by MacEdge | Aug 14, 2020 | Blog, Mac
It’s inevitable—your Time Machine backup drive is going to fill up. Time Machine is smart about backing up only files that have changed, but after months or years of usage, the drive will run out of space. What happens then? Before we explain, some background. On its...
by MacEdge | Aug 6, 2020 | Blog, Mac
Apple’s workhorse desktop Mac, the 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display, hasn’t seen an update since March 2019. Happily, the company has finally released a new version of the popular iMac in 2020, outfitting it with 10th-generation Intel processors, increasing its RAM...
by MacEdge | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog, Mac
Every so often, we hear from a Mac user with a seemingly impossible problem: a document window in some app is opening somewhere outside of the screen so it’s effectively invisible and they can’t work with it in any way. Just closing (with File > Close) and...
by MacEdge | Jul 23, 2020 | Apple Watch, Blog, Mac
Tired of typing your admin account password whenever you try to install software or change security settings on your Mac? A new feature in macOS 10.15 Catalina removes that requirement for Apple Watch owners. In System Preferences > Security & Privacy >...
by MacEdge | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog, Mac
This isn’t about periscopes or mouthwash—when it comes to searching, a scope is the area in which a search takes place. When you use the Search field in a Finder window to look for files and folders, you have the choice of two scopes: This Mac or the current folder....
by MacEdge | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog, Mac
Whenever you view a document that’s longer than will fit onscreen, a scroll bar appears (often only if you’re actively scrolling). That’s true whether you’re using an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Inside the scroll bar is a control called a scroller that you can drag to...
