Airdrop is not working between my imac and air book. Why?

Airdrop is very unreliable between my IMAC and Airbook. This is a recent problem and very annoying. Rebooting both computers restores it for a while. I now have to resort to emailing documents to myself to transfer simple small pages ot PDFs. I can;t find anything on the net to fix it but others have the same problem.

This is what my Airdrop looks like. It doesn't pick up my iPad, running ios8 (Airdrop is ON) and none of the drop down menus function. What is the big question mark?
I am using an iMac, just upgraded to the new Yosemite yesterday (BTW, Airdrop never worked previously either, and the window looked the same as now)

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