Hi Caitlyn, airdrop has to be running on both Macs. Your husband would need to accept the file request on his Mac for the operation to be completed. You can't control both sides of the exchange from a single Mac as far as I know.
Robert Carter On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > I was trying to play around with this last night and still can't get it to > work. > > I'm trying to send a file to my husband's mac which is on our home network. > His wifi is definitely on and so is mine. First I went to where the file I > wanted to airdrop was and interacted with it and did vo comma, then I went to > my network and to the other mac and did command shift r for airdrop and did > vo period but it said that the item was no longer available for airdrop. > > I know I'm doing something wrong, but just can't figure out what. > > Thanks for any help.. > Totally mystified, > Caitlyn > > On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Robert Carter wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I haven't used airdrop in a few months but I believe it drops the file in >> the downloads folder by default. >> >> Robert Carter >> >> >> On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: >> >>> Hi Robert, >>> So, if the place where I wanted to airdrop the file is someplace on my >>> network, I should first open that place, then go to where my file resides, >>> then do the drag and drop thing? >>> >>> Thanks for your help! >>> >>> Cait >>> >>> On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:11 PM, Robert Carter wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Caitlyn, >>>> >>>> The key is that both the file on your Mac and the location on the mac >>>> where you want to drop the file have to be visible on your screen at the >>>> same time So, open two finder windows one with the file and the other with >>>> airdrop and you can make it work. >>>> >>>> Robert Carter >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mar 14, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> Has anybody successfully been able to use air drop with lion yet? I >>>>> tried a couple of times tonight and it kept saying failed to drop on >>>>> airdrop. Any suggestions? I was using the vo commands to drag my file >>>>> selection from my documents and then used command shift r to bring up the >>>>> air drop item then tried to drop the file with voperiod. Have I got that >>>>> right? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Caitlyn >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
