Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Q: Here’s my problem. Whenever I open a Word document, I get this message: “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue.” I don’t ...

It’s easy to never go beyond the basics of Open and Save dialog boxes, despite their being perhaps the most-used feature of the Mac interface. Instead of simply working with the basics, make these ...

Sometimes, you discover the coolest Mac OS X tricks by accident. That happened recently to Hints reader philostein. And philostein’s accident is our gain. First, copy a file path to your Mac’s ...

Finally, go to the Settings section and select Change high DPI settings button. This will open a new dialog where you have to mark the checkbox next to the Override high DPI scaling behavior. If ...

Here’s a simple trick you can use in OS X 10.5’s Open dialog box. Say you’ve decided to open a saved file in a given application. You press Command-O (or select File -> Open if you’re menu-inclined) ...

Microsoft has reported that when right-clicking on apps such as 'Calculator' installed in Windows 10, a dialog box 'Choose how to open this file' is displayed instead of launching the app. Microsoft ...

Am I missing something, but when in an application, I click Open and get the open file dialog. There is a search box. If I type something in there it doesn't seem to work when I'm opening from a ...