Share button not working

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I have the same problem. This is the Console text:

Should I do what you suggested on your latest post (nov 4)?

19/3/16 23:33:58,231 pkd[528]: enabling pid=54548 for plug-in com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension(1.2) 2DAC9E68-CC33-459C-8805-1F7DC2351111 /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/PlugIns/com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension.appex

19/3/16 23:33:58,259 secinitd[540]: No AppSandbox cache present.

19/3/16 23:33:58,315 com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension[54560]: ### Failed to load Addressbook class CNContactNameFormatter

19/3/16 23:33:58,318 com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension[54560]: plug-in sdk "com.apple.share-services" not registered

19/3/16 23:33:58,318 com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension[54560]: plug-in sdk "com.apple.share-services" not registered

19/3/16 23:33:58,319 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension[54560]) Service exited due to signal: Illegal instruction: 4

19/3/16 23:33:58,319 diagnosticd[148]: error evaluating process info - pid: 54560, puniqueid: 54560

19/3/16 23:33:58,319 Safari[54548]: plugin com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension interrupted

19/3/16 23:33:58,319 Safari[54548]: Hub connection error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "connection to service named com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension}

19/3/16 23:33:58,319 Safari[54548]: --error: [ShareKit] error in -[NSExtension beginExtensionRequestWithInputItems:completion: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "connection to service named com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.Notes.SharingExtension}

19/3/16 23:33:58,330 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.ReportCrash[54561]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash

I have the same problem! In my case this always happened! Below the little part of log.

I have one MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Process: ShareMail [2960]

Path: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ShareKit.framework/Versions/A/PlugIns/ShareMa il.appex/Contents/MacOS/ShareMail

Identifier: ShareMail

Version: 1.0 (454.21)

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: ??? [1]

Responsible: ShareMail [2960]

User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2016-04-03 21:15:11.824 -0300

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.11.4 (15E65)

Report Version: 11

Anonymous UUID: 375EBF3B-3A78-B272-0295-60940DB8C934

Time Awake Since Boot: 1800 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)

Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000

Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:

Configuration error: No SDK cache entry for extension!

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff93902046 xpc_bundle_create_main + 442

1 libxpc.dylib 0x00007fff93901cdc xpc_main + 64

2 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff8db64bf3 -[NSXPCListener resume] + 160

3 com.apple.pluginkit.framework 0x00007fff90cb8e44 -[PKService run] + 493

4 com.apple.pluginkit.framework 0x00007fff90cb8b25 +[PKService main] + 55

5 com.apple.pluginkit.framework 0x00007fff90cb8e86 +[PKService _defaultRun:arguments:] + 17

6 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff951a05ad start + 1

Thread 1:

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff8b7305e2 __workq_kernreturn + 10

1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9a5db578 _pthread_wqthread + 1283

2 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff9a5d9341 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 2:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff8b730efa kevent_qos + 10

1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff99b0b165 _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 216

2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff99b0adcd _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52

is there any solution?

I have this problem to and this is the console query info as per the instructions here

Oct 28 14:16:59 MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit

Oct 28 14:17:01 MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.ReportCrash[1224]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.ReportCrash

Oct 28 14:17:09 MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.quicklook[1225]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.quicklook

Oct 28 14:17:09 MacBook-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.messages.ShareExtension[1223]): Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by launchd[1]

I found this as a temp workaround of the share using imessage not working

I am using sierra as well I did what was suggest here:

I unchecked the contacts on icloud settings and then tried the share via imessage and it worked. Then I checked back on the contacts on icloud contacts and it worked again

I did this from safari, when I tried from a file folder it did not, so I went back to uncheck the contacts on icloud and repeated the sequence described above and it worked

It seems to me that from each place you want to share something via imessage you have to turn off contacts, try it, turn it back on again and this seems to correct whatever it is that was wrong

But after a little while it stops working again if you have contacts activate in icloud

I guess the next step is to try to loggoff from the icloud account and re login to see if this gets fixed

turning off contacts in iCloud finally made the share button active again--in my case both in Safari and in Maps.

but in turning contacts back on in iCloud, the share button was rendered again inactive.

Sharing options and Markup are missing after you install OS X Yosemite

that one helps me Re: Share Button