The "share" button in finder is greyed out an I cannot figure out why. I am still able to right click on a file and access the share menu that way but I am not able to actually click the share button at the top of finder to quickly share a file. I have dug through Preferences and cannot seem to figure out what the issue is.
MacBook Pro
There is a chance that the Finder preferences may have become corrupted.
You can see if that is the case:
In Finder, press Command-Shift-G and paste
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Drag the file out of the folder, and park it on the Desktop, for now.
Press Command-Option-Escape, select the Finder on the list, and click Relaunch.
Did you get the Share menu back? Fine. Drag that plist file from the Desktop to the trash.
If not, you can put the old preferences file back, if you want.
There is a chance that the Finder preferences may have become corrupted.
You can see if that is the case:
In Finder, press Command-Shift-G and paste
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Drag the file out of the folder, and park it on the Desktop, for now.
Press Command-Option-Escape, select the Finder on the list, and click Relaunch.
Did you get the Share menu back? Fine. Drag that plist file from the Desktop to the trash.
If not, you can put the old preferences file back, if you want.
Correct, it is still like that regardless if a file is selected or not.
No, that is not the reason.
It doesn’t look like you have a file selected.
Is it that way with a file selected?
That particular file is in the cloud, and not downloaded to your mac - note the cloud icon next to it.
Could that be the reason?
Eureka! That did it, thank you so much
"Share" is greyed out in Finder on Monterey 12.6
