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Q: airdrop disappeared from OS X Yosemite

I had airdrop few weeks back.

I never updated my OS version.

airdrop cannot be seen in Finder or Finder Preferences.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Apr 4, 2016 9:22 PM

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Q: airdrop disappeared from OS X Yosemite

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  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Apr 5, 2016 9:33 AM in response to ainafromsunnyvale
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    Apr 5, 2016 9:33 AM in response to ainafromsunnyvale

    Might be a corrupt .plist.

     

    Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

     

    Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.  Move the .plist to your desktop.

     

    Re-launch Finder by restarting the computer and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

     

    If the same, return the .plist to where you got it  from, overwriting the newer one.

     

    Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.