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Make The Most Out Of AirDrop In Lion
Mar 11, 2025
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hey everyone so I'm going to show you
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how you can make the most out of airdrop
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in Mac OS 10 line now the first thing I
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want to show you requires terminal and
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unfortunately like a lot of neat things
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in OS 10 it requires terminal to enable
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so first of all if you have an older Mac
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especially some of the iMacs and
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MacBooks from 2008 you know some of the
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older
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ones they will not support airdrop by
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default and you cannot see the airdrop
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menu or anything and it's supposedly a
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limitation of the hardware in those
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computers but there's a way using
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terminal that you can enable airdrop on
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those old computers so you can see right
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here in this window I have my old 2008
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iMac connected with screen sharing and
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if I open up a new finder window you can
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see there is no option for airdrop if I
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go into finder and preferences there is
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no option under sidebar of course
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there's no option for airdrop at all so
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what you can do is if you go into your
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applications folder and from there
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utilities and terminal you can open this
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up and here you're going to have to type
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in a command and the command will be
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below the video so you can copy and
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paste it and that is
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defaults space WR space com. apple.
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Network browser browse all
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interfaces space one and browse all
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interfaces is one word capital letters
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on B A and
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I and then from there you can hit enter
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so then you'll type in kill all as one
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word space finder capital F hit enter
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finder will quit and then relaunch now
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when I initially tried this on my 2008
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iMac my new iMac was not able to see the
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old iMac so what you have to do in this
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case is you have to run the same command
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on the other computer that you'll want
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to use airdrop with so by running the
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command on both of my iMacs when I
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opened up a new finder
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window and click on airdrop you can see
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that both computers can see each other
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with airdrop now and this is something
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previously not available with the old
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iMac
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enabled there's a couple things that you
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can do with airdrop that you might not
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know about if you've used it already
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first one is that it's pretty common but
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you can use multiple items if you didn't
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know that so if I want to drag all four
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of these screenshots to the old iMac I
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can do that so it Stacks them up like
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this and just kind of goes one by one
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and this is easy instead of having to
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put all the items into a zip folder or
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something like that it's you know just
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an easy little thing you can drag
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multiple files now unfortunately I can't
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demonstrate this one but you can
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actually put items in a queue so if I
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had let's say an iMac and a Macbook
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connected what I could do is I could
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drag files to the iMac and while those
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were transferring I could drag files to
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the MacBook too and those would wait in
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the queue and when the iMac was finished
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transferring its files then the MacBook
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would start so you can kind of get
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things ready to go and not have to sit
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there and wait the whole time for files
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to transfer so that's neat as well you
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another neat thing that you might not
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notice if you if you don't have a
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download stack in your dock you can see
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my download stack here when I drag these
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screenshots to my new iMac and I accept
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them over here if you look at my
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download stack you can see a little
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progress bar so if you're transferring
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large files it's kind of neat because
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you can just glance at it quick and see
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what progress your transfer is at and if
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you're sick of airdrop altogether you
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can hold down the command key on your
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Mac and just click and drag airdrop
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out of your favorite SP on the side and
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it's gone just like that you don't have
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to worry about air drop anymore and last
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but not least if you still can't get
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airdrop to work on your old Maxs and you
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still want an easy way to transfer files
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there's an application you can check out
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and it's called drop copy and it does
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pretty much the exact same thing as
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airdrop not quite as elegant but it does
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work fairly well and you can see it
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running in my menu bar here and I'll
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have a link to that application if you
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want to download it so there you go
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there's how you can get the most out of
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aird drop in Mac OS 10
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line if you have any howtos that you'd
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like to see me do please send me an
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email I hope you found this video useful
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and thank you for watching
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