The 4 Basic Techniques Every Mac User Needs To Master

I am not able to copyor move files to external drive ATTACHED to my router.

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 so much for this.

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.

i've used a mac for years now and i always find something new on your videos - thank you.

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?"

I have learn a lot from you about iMac computer Thank you

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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.

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.

Cool, these tips, even though I've been a Mac user an Apple OS now macOS user for almost 30 years, I'm always a tabula rasa but now, along with Snazzy Labs' Mac tips, this is worthy of another cup of coffee (not into coffee but it's needed in this chapter of thy life where I need to catch up by 33x X-D but God's will be done).

God bless Revelation 21:4

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 👍

Great cover. What I like about the Mac is the inverse (redo in this case) is the same combo plus an extra key

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.

Another great video. Thanks Gary.

damn you good bro. i know some but some of those kind of wow situation

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?

Opt + cmd + V 👍 moves file. Many Thanks

Makes my head spin!

Always something more than expected.
Thanks Gary

Thanks Gary. COuld you please make a video on who to changed the default sign-in/lockscreen wallpaper? Thanks a lot.

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.

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.

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Greetings from Cabo Verde Islands.
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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.

My QuickTime Player isn't working well. Is it possible to uninstall it and reinstall it. Do you know of any fix Gary?

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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.

Thanks...really helpful

I don’t understand why Apple hasn’t bought CopyPaste……it makes coping and pasting as breeze with multiple slots for action…

I need help
How to slide download photos?

Thanks mastering these short cuts will improve productivity and accuracy. Best regards, Shirish Balekundri, Affiliate Marketing Expert, Singapore

Thank you!!!

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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".

you made me feel smart, i was aware of all of this. came to learn left feeling smart, 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…

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!!!

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.

Great tutorials, Gary, they are very educative and useful.

There is always something new to learn. You prove it.

You channel is really informative and helped me a lot with my windows to Mac transition

For the first time of many I actually knew all of this!!!

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

No-nonsense helps! Thanks for all your older iMAC tips, too!