Q: El Capitain: Share buttons not working anymore - system wide
No more sharing with Mail, Message, Airdrop,Notes
When I installed El Capitain (Now 10.11.5 ) all went fine.
Recently I noticed the the much appreciated share button would not work anymore.
Symptoms:
- Click on eg Share with Message or Mail would 1. not bring the result plus 2. render the used window irresponsive (per window in safari). Only closing the entire application restores.
- checked with other applications: Notes, Safari, Mail, Finder etc. – they show the same problem
Tried solution
- found some suggestion in the forum Share Button stop functioning OS X El Capitan and tried option one:
- No cure
- Worse: Now the share links to Message and Notes and others disappeared!! And are not even anymore listed when clicking the more button! A new bunch of unwanted social media stuff populated this list instead.
- How to get those back
- How to take those unwanted items off the list
Now clueless. Does anyone else have the same problem?
Does someone know how to fix this?
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), 8G Ram 500G HD
Posted on Jun 13, 2016 10:45 AM
There's a problem with your OS X installation. The simplest way, but not the fastest way, to fix it is to reinstall the OS. Unless you're in a hurry or have metered network access, that's what I suggest, especially since I don't know whether there are other problems with the installation. Please back up all data before reinstalling. You won't need the backup unless something goes wrong.
The advanced shortcut below, if it works, may save you some downtime (and the cost of a multi-gigabyte download, if applicable.)
1. Back up all data.
2. Disconnect all external storage devices.
3. Start up in Recovery mode. Select a language, if prompted. The OS X Utilities screen will appear. One of the options is to install OS X. That's not what you're going to do.
4. This step is only necessary if you use FileVault 2. If you don't know what FileVault is, you're not using it. Go to the next step. Otherwise, launch Disk Utility, then select the icon of the FileVault volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) It will be nested below another drive icon. Select Unlock from the File menu and enter your login password when prompted. Then quit Disk Utility to be returned to the main screen.
5. Select Get Help Online. Safari will launch. While in Recovery, you'll have no access to your bookmarks, but you won't need them. Load this web page.
6. Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
chflags -R norestricted /V*/*/S*/*/Caches
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
7. Quit Safari. You'll be returned to the OS X Utilities screen.
From the menu bar, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
The Terminal application will launch. Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V.
Wait for a new line ending in a hash sign (#) to appear. Quit Terminal to be returned to the main screen.
8. Select
▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
9. This step must be carried out after the restart and while you're logged in as an administrator—not in Recovery mode. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Select and copy this line as in Step 6:
sudo /usr/libexec/xpchelper --rebuild-cache
Paste into a Terminal window as before. You'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Confirm. You don't need to post the warning.
If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Log in as one and start this step over. You don't have to repeat the earlier steps.
Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear below what you entered.
10. Do as in Step 9 with this line:
sudo /usr/libexec/*/app_sandbox_cache_builder --rebuild-cache
You can then quit Terminal.
See, however: Mystery - LaunchDaemon respawning issue
Posted on Jun 14, 2016 3:23 AM