if I may make an observation here, air drop isn't necessarily needed here. Air drop is an added feature.
a way to go about this from a more straight forward approach is to enable sharing of your husband's mac and yours on the home network through "Sharing" within system preferences. turn on file sharing and enable read write permissions for yourself and the other computer. close this window. open a finder window and you should see another mac appear within the finder sidebar. you can either send directly to the public folder or direct to the drive and access directories on the other system. please note that you will need to do two things. firstly ensure the other machine has file sharing enabled and read write permissions available for logged in users and secondly you connect to the system with your username and password. this should then grant permission to connect as a guest to host connection. you should then have connection to the other machine to send and receive data. lew On 18 Mar 2012, at 17:45, Paul Erkens wrote: > To add to this, airdrop has to be running means, that the airdrop window > should be visible on the recipients computer as well. I used to think that I > could airdrop a file to my wife, and that she would get a popup, no matter > what she would be doing. That's not the case. I need to tell her I have a > file ready, she needs to open her airdrop window, I then go to the file and > hit vo comma, I then go into my own airdrop window using the sidebar, I then > find her name in my airdrop window, and then I drop the file on her name. She > then gets a message asking to accept, and then my file goes into her > downloads folder. That works, although I last needed to use it some time ago, > so I hope I am not forgetting a step. > Hth, > Paul. > On Mar 18, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Robert Carter wrote: > >> 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. 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