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Airplay mirroring broke in 10.9.2

i just updated to 10.9.2 and now when i try and airplay mirror to my Apple TV, it sends the audio but just shows a black screen and i can't drag anything to it. It doesn't show any of the options for external displays in the displays section of System Preferences.



Any ideas? i tried reapplying the combo update with no luck

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 25, 2014 11:36 AM

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Feb 28, 2014 7:24 PM in response to casein2006

Thank you, casein2006!!! I too had previously installed AirParrot - but had desinstalled it (or thought I had). Lost ability to airplay video (only audio worked) from my mac to apple tv shortly after upgrading to ios 10.9.2. Spent hours with various apple support folks culminating in reloading the os - nothing fixed it. Removing the pieces of AirParrot detailed in the link you provided finally fixed it - can mirror video and audio again with airplay.

Feb 28, 2014 11:51 PM in response to Zoidberg1979

Had another conversation with Apple Support today. They had me reinstall OS X, which worked to fix the AirPlay problem. However, the reinstall reverted me to version 10.9.1 instead of 10.9.2. Once I upgraded to 10.9.2 again, the AirPlay problem returned, so I'm still at a loss.


I used to have AirParrot on my computer, but uninstalled it a while ago. I tried uninstalling the files mentioned on page 3 of this thread, but that hasn't helped at all. Not sure what to do next.

Feb 28, 2014 11:57 PM in response to chaca13

Actually, I just happened to try the AirParrot uninstaller located here:


http://support.airsquirrels.com/article.php?id=8


I thought I had uninstalled AirParrot long ago, but apparently there were still some residual files and settings leftover. I ran the uninstaller and now AirPlay is working just fine on my iMac with 10.9.2.


Hopefully this will work for the rest of you!

Mar 1, 2014 1:53 AM in response to casein2006

I can confirm that AirParrot even after zapping it with AppZapper, leaves a small file APExtFramebuffer

and it resides at:System/Library/Extensions and even removing this manually didn't work.

This file and maybe some others, have been there since before Mavericks and has only become a problem on the 10.9.2 update.

A removal tool for ALL AIRPARROT FILES, exists here, http://support.airsquirrels.com/article.php?id=8


Airplay up and running now.

Mar 1, 2014 9:41 AM in response to Joseph Rose

2. Look in the /Library/Launch Agents and /Library/Launch Daemons folders.

3. Look in /Library/Startup Items as well. There may not be anything in here, which is perfectly normal.

4. Create a folder on your desktop that corresponds to each of these folders. For example, I create an LA, LD, and SI folder on my desktop.

5. Move the contents of the folders to the corresponding folders created on your desktop.

6. Open System Preferences > Users and Groups ("Accounts" on older systems)

7. Remove all third party login items by clicking on them, then the minus sign.

8. Restart the computer and test to see if the issue persists.

Airplay mirroring broke in 10.9.2

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