Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Today I upgraded to Lion. At first, everything seemed to be fine. Then I noticed I didn't have Air Drop in my Finder window. I then upgraded my Macbook Pro to Lion and it does hav Air Drop. I've looked online and this was a common bug when developers were testing Lion.
Does anyone know if Apple is aware of the problem and is planning on fixing it? If they aren't then it looks like I'm going to have to do a clean install.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
My 2008 MBP apparently DOES NOT support Airdrop:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x87)
Firmware Version: Atheros 5416: 2.1.14.9
MAC Address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Locale: FCC
Country Code: US
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165
Status: Connected
FYI - It also DOES NOT support most of the new multi-touch gestures for the trackpad. 😟
huh. why would it work on my ipad, itouch and not my big mac if they are all hooked up to the wifi box?
i found that 2 computer must all open the airdrop window to make them connected, 1 closted, it breakout
Hi Everyone,
I found this article about using terminal to enable AirDrop on mac's which are "unsupported". ^_^
I've just enabled it, and my iMac 7,1 now shows AirDrop in Finder, but I haven't yet tested it all.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/16/enable-airdrop-ethernet-and-unsupported-macs/
Thought i'd post it here for everyone in case you guys hadn't seen it.
^_^
I have tried sylphhawk's suggestions - and I now see AirDrop in the finder windows of my MacPro, where previously I didn't. However, when I click on AirDrop, my MacPro doesn't see my brand new MacBook Air. And my MacBook Air still doesn't see my MacPro. Any suggestions?
"attached is a note that you may need to use this command on all Macs that intend to interact with the unsupported Mac, although that doesn’t seem to be the case on all machines."
I think it is just hidden. Try shift-command-r ,it should be there. Or Finder > Go and scroll to see Airdrop.
I bought my MacBook Pro last year from the apple store. However, I can't access AirDrop on my laptop.
NOTICE:
To do this you need use Terminal, Keep in mind that anything you do on terminal could mess up your system, so proceed with caution.
Launch terminal (you can do that by using spotlight and type terminal OR you can find it under /Application/Utilities) and type:
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1
After that you need to relaunch finder. You can either force quit the Finder and relaunch Finder or type the following:
killall Finder && open /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
I successful enabled AirDrop on my old early 2008 Macbook.
Air Drop isn't showing up.
