how to remove a shared computer

I've been working on removing an old HP computer and making only a little headway when I came across your suggestion and tried it. I was multi-tasking on my Macbook Pro and using my Mac and didn't want to meddle with the router physically until the Macbook Pro was finished with what I had it doing, so I decided to go ahead and try your suggestion.

The problem was this: I had an old HP computer visible on the Finder list at the left side of the window and wanted to remove it.

In a previous post, I came across the check/uncheck Bonjour computers suggestion in the Finder Preferences under the Sidebar menu and it would indeed 'hide' the HP but there was a new item which appeared with the word 'All' in it that came on in place of the HP item and I didn't want to see either.

As soon as I re-checked the Bonjour computers checkbox, the HP came back so I knew it was still present, just hidden and since I no longer use that computer, I wanted it gone for good.

Next, I saw the thread about toggling the File Share off then back on and voila! My HP is now gone off the Shared list in Finder and I can toggle Bonour computers on and off and HP is still gone. Yay! Thanks for the help wstoneburner and a few others who posted before yours which led me to your suggestion.

I don't know if this works for you but it did for me. I had 2 other computers that was shared with mine and when I went to the sharing preferences in system preferences, there wasn't anything there. But I found out how to fix it really fast. All I did was restart my computer and when I went back into finder, the sharing section was gone and the 2 other computers were gone. BTW. 1 computer was named and the other one was called desktop-(then a number).

None of the answers are relevant or work for removing a spurious shared computer on the Shared menu in the Finder window. I had a Mac from my previous invoice showing for many months. Here is how to remove it:

Launch keychain > in the search box the name of the computer i.e. Johns Mac

Keychain should show you a 'com.cloudd.deviceIdentifier' line. Highlight this line and delete it (Edit>Delete).

Restart your Mac.

You should now see that the shared computer is not listed.

Thanks it worked

Thanks bro, this worked for me too

This worked........ unchecked connected servers and bonjour computers in finder preferences. All is fine now.

Thank you Koen.

David

This worked........ unchecked connected servers and bonjour computers in finder preferences. All is fine now.

David

This did the trick for me. Thank you.

Hi, thank you for the tip but I was not able to get to see what you are describing.

I put my computers name in the search box and I did not see anything that says 'com.cloudd.deviceIdentifier'.

This is what I am trying to get rid of, which by now I now is my Xprint Server device.

Thank you.

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

Hi, the answer was only posted by Phillby001 in July (Jul 12, 2016 8:54 AM).

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How do you unsubscribe from threads like this? I don't want email updates to 2 year old threads!

I'm not following any communities, so no idea why I am being emailed this stuff.

EDIT: Sorry, now fixed it. Please ignore this post... I'd delete it if I knew how!

I did uncheck that box, and I clicked "ok," however when I checked again (by going to System Preferences,) the other network still showed/shows.

yay! helped me! Gone is my old HP computer that has been lurking on my finder for 3 years now.. thank you

Hi,

Did you find a way to get rid of that old ugly piece of icon.

Thanks