Do the same or look for the send button in an App's window on the sending Mac. Open the AirDrop window (⌘⇧R) on the receiving Mac.The limitation is that AirDrop is an attended service: it requires that its window be open and a user be present to click the Save button on the other side. AirDrop is a Wi-Fi ad-hoc service, which means that as long as Wi-Fi is turned on for the Macs doing the sharing, you can share files without setting up a network or file-sharing at all. You may want to review or refer to my last post, ' Mac sharing Part 1: How to get connected.'įor users of MacOS X 10.7 (Lion) and later a quick option to replace the ubiquitous USB stick / flash / thumb / external hard drive has been provided. In this post we will look at three general scenarios and the best associated method for sharing files between Macs over a local network: AirDrop, Guest, and User Account sharing.
