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I have a M1 Mac running Sonoma. I use a program called Downie to download music videos off my YouTube playlist, when I do this it creates a number sequence that can go up to 100. how do I format it to remove it? is there a shorthand way of doing it. everyday I batch rename photos & videos. & if...

When I open any of “My Guides” in Maps, “Sort by Distance” is already selected, but I have to tap it, then tap “Distance” to get it to sort properly every time. It doesn’t sort automatically by default, even with that sorting option selected. Is that expected behavior, or does it seem like a bug?

Im using timemachine (TM) and everytime i wish to delete big files, i open TM and delete the backedup file too. Im doing this in order not to leave deleted files in the backup, so i can reduce the space in the drive that is used by TM. Pretty frustrating when doing it with many files... so i...

Hey everyone, Just had to format a Macbook. Running Catalina. I had this set up before and remember it being a pain in the *** to set up last time and can't remember how to get it back. In Finder, I use column view to sort by date modified with the most recent file at the top. I want that...

Its hard to sort the APPs. I tap on the app and then i can move it and the background too but i can t place it then. Almost impossible.

I'm having a problem whereby one of my folders, in the finder, has fixed names instead of column names that you can click on to sort: All other folders in finder are viewed with a manual metadata bar, whereby I can click a column name to sort it. This problem arises when I use the keyboard...

Hello, I mostly use automator to do most of my job as well as renaming files. Now what I would like to do is: 1)Sort files using "EXIF" data created date, if no info of EXIF, sort according to file created date (I do not want to use file created date directly, cause EXIF and this are...

Hi, I often press 'command O' to add a track to my iTunes, i then right click on it and select 'add to apple music library' so i can add this track to a playlist on my phone. The problem is when i drag that track to my selected playlist, it always adds it to the bottom of the playlist, not the...

i used to be a big apple person. i started on a Power PC running OS 7 in 1996. i LOVED apple for many years. now i hate it. nothing works correctly, like before about 2010. everything used to "just work" and it was intuitive. now, everything is a problem, it seems. from my apple TV, to...

Hi there, After switching to Apple Music and iCloud Music Library on my iPhone, the playlist that I constantly update is sorted on my phone by the order in which the songs are placed in the playlist, i.e. sorted by the column at the very top left with the arrow up or down. The problem is: when...

Hi, For some reason, my finder window is not sorting my files by date created. It does sort them by date in terms of year, but that's all. for example in this one folder, all the files for 2014 are just in alphabetical order. Any ideas why this is? Thanks