Speaking of “hacks” here’s one for everyone using an older Mac or who just wants to use AirDrop over Ethernet, rather than slow WiFi. Apple currently only officially supports a number of more recent machines, and it’s likely there’s a good reason for that. That being said, it works for me using my Mac Pro’s (MacPro1,1) Ethernet connection connecting to my already supported MacBook Pro (MacBookPro5,1) on WiFi. Obviously this requires both machines to be running OS X Lion. Proceed at your own risk. All it needs is a little
Disable Quartz Extreme on older Macs Jul 27, '04 09:01:00AM. Contributed by: fudgecode This hint is for you if you have a graphics card that is having problems with Quartz Extreme, and are having trouble disabling it. This app will hack Continuity to work on your older Mac. Continuity is one of the best features of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, allowing your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to all operate more seamlessly. Now, handoff and airdrop is working, I can see my iPad in the airdrop window of my mac mini. But, my original goal, to use my iPad Air 3 as a second display to mac mini won't If I connect it with the usb cable, now I can choose iPad as a sidecar device (also I can see the iPad icon in the menu bar), but the iPad screen goes black, and on the.
Terminal love by entering the following defaults command and afterwards relaunching Finder (or rebooting your Mac):
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1
I am quite happy this “hack” still works under Mountain Lion 10.8.0 and 10.8.1, so if you have an older Mac computer that can still run Lion or Mountain Lion natively, no need to go jealous on the AirDrop functionality of newer computers! My thanks to OSXDaily.com for posting the original tip of the anonymous user over MacOSXHints.com. Airdrop is not available on many older Macs. This guide shows you how to activate Airdrop with a little trick. Older Mac models: How to enable Airdrop. Open the terminal and enter the command 'defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1' without quotation marks. Then restart your Mac.
In case you want to disable it:
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defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 0
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(According to some comments on Macworld this also works for those who use a hackintosh.)