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I have Airdrop on my two macbooks, both running Mavericks. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Today, I logged in and out of my Macbook Pro and it worked to connect to the Airdrop of my Macbook Air. When I tried it again, it did not work. I remember before that I had to restart both macs to make it work. There was a time I repaired permissions. What actually makes this feature work?
I really wish Apple would stop advertising features that are problematic. I really want to believe that Airdrop is a useful feature of their OS, but my experience with it proves otherwise.

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