Enabling AirDrop on older Macs

20 Sep 2011 09:24:50

Euan Williams

AirDrop (the useful and efficient file sharing feature in Lion) only works on more recent Macs (from around 2009 onwards?) and appears to be unavailable to many Lion users with earlier Macs.

OSX Daily offers this solution (taken from a thread in MacWorld):
> http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/16/enable-airdrop-ethernet-and-unsupported-macs/#comments <.

Re: Enabling AirDrop on older Macs

21 Sep 2011 14:54:46

Mark Ford

There is a video on Cult of Mac showing how this can be done.

Re: Enabling AirDrop on older Macs

26 Sep 2011 21:04:10

Lionel Ogden

This worked a treat on my five year old iMac and my four year old Macbook. If it was so easy why were Macs of this age excluded from apple's original Airdrop?

Re: Enabling AirDrop on older Macs

29 Sep 2011 18:52:44

Lionel Ogden

When experimenting with this at the recent Salisbury meeting, we found that although I could see all the other "Airdop enabled" macs in the room , they could not see me. However I appeared when I was sending a file to another Mac, but then disappeared again when the transfer was completed. We could play with this for hours.