the only way i was able to fix this and get FMM running again was to reinstall the operating system so the Recovery partition could be rebuilt.
How to enable find my friends on macbook update#
So I went into iCloud in system preferences and noticed Find My Mac was greyed out and said "recovery system update required". When I went onto Find My Phone about a month later, My MBP was no longer listed (I was showing the feature to a friend who just bought a mac).
How to enable find my friends on macbook pro#
I used Carbon Copy to transfer my data to a bigger harddrive on my MacBook Pro and the software didn't copy the recovery partition over. If it's gone, "Find my Mac" will turn itself off on the computer. The computer needs that recovery partition to function.
Go to the Apple ( ) menu and click System Preferences or click the System Preferences dock icon. This useful tool not only enables the ability to remotely access the command line interface of your Mac, but also to. Meaning when you log into the feature, your computer will no longer be listed. If you skipped this step when completing the setup assistant you can enable Find My Mac from System Preferences. SSH (or Secure Shell) is a great service to enable on your Mac at home or work. If you do that, the "Find My Mac" feature will disable itself. The first suggestion of sabotaging you recovery partition will not work.
Of course you will want to keep an external bootable recovery drive (USB stick?) available if you do this. Sabotage the recovery system somewhere so it can't boot and thus can't be used as the plaatform to wipe your main drive. To enable Find My Mac but disable Remote Wipe, you need to have a recovery partition, and it needs to not successfully boot. Remote wipe most likely won't work if the Recovery partition isn't bootable. To add your Facebook account to your Mac, click the Apple menu select System Preferences click 'Internet Accounts' click 'Facebook' enter your Facebook login information. So, Find my Mac won't turn on unless there is a recovery partition. It seems most likely that wherever the remote wipe lives, it's somewhere on the recovery partition. The Find my Mac remote wipe causes a reboot. Also, it would be very difficult for a running process to wipe its own boot drive. Evidences for this include the fact that "Find my Mac" will not turn on (be greyed out) if there is no Restore partition present. None of the documentation about configuration mentions options to enable these selectively the control is off/on.Īs far as disabling remote wipe, there seems to be a strong indication that the remote wipe involves rebooting to the Restore partition. This is the closest I have found to a direct statement that it's one package: if it's set up, you can locate, display a message, play a sound, lock, or erase. In this Knowledge Base article, Apple write "With Find My iPhone set up on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or Mac, you can locate, display a message, play a sound, remotely lock, or remotely wipe (erase) your device using the Find My iPhone app from another device (such as a friend's iPhone or iPad)."
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