DaveMT

Q: AirDrop being started.  What? Why?

Finder > Go > Utilities > Console.  Message: "Starting AirDrop server for user 501 on wake"  Finder > Go > AirDrop.  This AirDrop window tells me that my Wi-Fi is OFF and I want Wi-Fi to be OFF.  Question:  Who or What is "user 501"?  What is the meaning of the phrase: "on wake" ?

 

Here are a few entries from Message Inspector:

Facility:     com.apple.sharingd

Sender:     sharingd

SenderMachUUID:     88E7DA36-252E-333C-86B0-82EA1933C50C

 

I own one, and only one, Apple product and that is an iMac with OS X El Capitan version 10.11.5.  Thus, I have no need for AirDrop.  Yet this message tells me that AirDrop is being started for user 501.  What?  Why?

 

Many "Thanks" for your assistance,

Dave

G5 (FW800), Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 23, 2016 9:38 AM

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