AirDrop bug, can someone please do a quick check?

lamboman · 6 Apr 2012 at 16:13

Hi all,

Running 10.7.3 on both of my machines, and both have this issue.

1) Remove AirDrop from the sidebar.
2) Set their view as column in the window (third button from the left)
3) Close the window
4) Press command-shift-R to bring up AirDrop.

Does AirDrop come up properly, or do you get a weird column view?

Thanks

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Apr 2012 at 16:47

Just tried this and it comes up fine for me

lamboman · 6 Apr 2012 at 17:06

Thanks for the reply. Not worth a reinstall, but a submitted a bug report to Apple just to notify. If I have the AirDrop icon in the sidebar it is fine, so I guess I'll just live with it.

Thanks

Marky · 6 Apr 2012 at 18:02

I tried it (Using 10.7.3) and it appears fine for me also!

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Apr 2012 at 18:11

Wait.....

I get this screen when re-doing it. It does seem to be a bug indeed.

Marky · 6 Apr 2012 at 18:24

mrbell1984 said:
Wait.....

I get this screen when re-doing it. It does seem to be a bug indeed.

http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/93/screenshot20120406at181.png[IMG][/QUOTE]

Ahh... I didn't have WiFi on - After turning it on and trying again - I also get that screen.

lamboman · 7 Apr 2012 at 00:13

Thank goodness/oh no! xD

Well, bug reported to Apple, I thought I was going crazy when I uninstalled VirtualBox (and deleted its leftover files, something that I'm comfortable and fine with) and this started happening. I thought I had deleted something I shouldn't have (which wouldn't make sense).

I'm getting the same window, if you resize it you can have some Windows-style crashing fun

The "fix" for now is to leave AirDrop in the sidebar; this will fix the problem for all circumstances, and will keep AirDrop working as normal.

Thanks for the input everyone!

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Apr 2012 at 13:22

Wait, I did also install Virtual Box. Does it happen if VB is not installed? I may do a fresh install to test to ensure it's not some software breaking Air Drop.

lamboman · 7 Apr 2012 at 15:11

mrbell1984 said:
Wait, I did also install Virtual Box. Does it happen if VB is not installed? I may do a fresh install to test to ensure it's not some software breaking Air Drop.

Didn't happen to me before VirtualBox was installed, only when I got rid of it (on both machines) that this started to occur.

Marky, did you have VirtualBox installed?

I definitely didn't delete any system files when I uninstalled VirtualBox, and I used the included uninstall script.

What's really odd is that the only thing that VirtualBox added to the System Library was its Python API, yet the issue affects all user accounts!

Marky · 7 Apr 2012 at 15:50

I've never heard of VirtualBox to be honest, the only sort of virtualisation software I use is Wineskin.

lamboman · 8 Apr 2012 at 13:33

Well at least we know that it isn't only related to VirtualBox. Thanks!