Railson_2

Q: Sharing

I am running a Macbook Pro late 2014, with El Capitan latest update and also Windows 10 latest update accessed via VMware Fusion Latest update.

 

Everything just fine until yesterday when I tried to share a email on my Mac with a friend ( I have done this a thousand times with no issue ). But this time the share options tries to open my PC with VmFusion in order to access a mail application.

 

I must have selected this option somewhere but where ? It is driving me crazy

 

Thanks for any help

 

Jim

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on May 8, 2016 5:37 PM

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  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis May 8, 2016 6:19 PM in response to Railson_2
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    May 8, 2016 6:19 PM in response to Railson_2

    From the Mail menu bar, please select

              Mail ▹ Preferences... ▹ General ▹ Default email reader: Mail

    If you don't use Mail, you may be able to set the preference in the mail client you do use.

    If Microsoft Outlook 2011 is installed and you don't want it to be the default mail reader, select

              Outlook ▹ Preferences... ▹ General

    Uncheck the box marked

              Make Outlook the default application for e-mail, calendar, and contacts

    If the default mail client resets to Mail after you have set it to something else, you may have to disable iCloud Drive temporarily before changing it.

  • by Railson_2,

    Railson_2 Railson_2 May 9, 2016 8:17 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    May 9, 2016 8:17 AM in response to Linc Davis

    Hello Linc,

     

    Thanks for the reply. i think I am half way there.

    I reset the preferences in the Mail menu but as you anticipated the reset would not hold.

    So I looked for the way to disable temporarily iCloud Drive and was unable to find a method to do that.

    If you can help there that would be appreciated. Also should I do a reset to the default after the disable ? and then enable the iCloud drive ?

    Thanks

    Jim

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis May 9, 2016 9:20 AM in response to Railson_2
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    May 9, 2016 9:20 AM in response to Railson_2

    Please follow the link in the last line of my earlier comment.

  • by Railson_2,

    Railson_2 Railson_2 May 9, 2016 10:39 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    May 9, 2016 10:39 AM in response to Linc Davis

    I found a way of turning off  iCloudrivfe by unchecking tt in 'Apple" > System Preferences > iCloud >

    However, it warns that in doing so I wipeout all contents of iCloud drive.

    Is this correct ?

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis May 9, 2016 11:00 AM in response to Railson_2
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    May 9, 2016 11:00 AM in response to Railson_2

    You will remove iCloud Drive documents from your computer, but not from iCloud. When you reenable iCloud Drive, the documents will be restored.

  • by Railson_2,

    Railson_2 Railson_2 May 9, 2016 11:20 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    May 9, 2016 11:20 AM in response to Linc Davis

    I disabled iCloudrive and reset the default email. reader, however, it still reverts back to "windowsHostProcess(Rundll32)2-windows7*64app

  • by Linc Davis,Solvedanswer

    Linc Davis Linc Davis May 9, 2016 12:11 PM in response to Railson_2
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    May 9, 2016 12:11 PM in response to Railson_2

    Although the problem is not the same, please follow the instructions in this support article to reset the Launch Services database.

    Instead of typing the command as directed in the article, I suggest that you copy and paste it from the web page into the Terminal window. Make sure you select the whole line before copying. One way to do that is to triple-click anywhere in the line.

    If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before proceeding. You may have to log out or restart to see a change.

  • by Railson_2,

    Railson_2 Railson_2 May 10, 2016 7:52 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    May 10, 2016 7:52 AM in response to Linc Davis

    Hi Linc,

    The last act seems to have solved the issue. Sharing via email is once again doing what it is supposed to be doing and markup was not effected.

    It would be interesting to know how that little bug got into my macbook but am happy it seems to have left.

    Thanks very much

    Jim