Cant seem to file share between cloned drives Im running two macs on my home office setup; a 2010 Macbook Pro and a 2011 Mac Mini. Both have been upgraded in the past with Crucial SSDs and for each I used the Carbon Copy software to clone the drives before installation. I noticed the other night I couldn't Airdrop between my two machines. I figured this must have something to do with the clone and was wondering if there was a workaround to fix this issue?
Ive also noticed issues in the past with apps like iMessage not updating on both machines, only one or the other.
For the time being Dropbox does the trick, but having Airdrop operational between the two would be ideal. Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Cloning is intended to provide an identical copy of the system. That is great for disaster recovery, but not so good for running on another computer unless you perform some extra steps.  You have two identical software configurations (possibly even with the same computer name) and that causes confusion.
If you don't want to start from scratch on one of the Macs, you need to rename and reset one of the Macs.
As a start, I would give Macs different names (do this in System Preferences &gt; Sharing). Reboot. Then remove one from iCloud and re-add it. Again, reboot.  That may be all that is needed - you will need to tell us!
Those two steps should enable iCloud (for iMessage, etc) and local network services (e.g. AirDrop) to recognise them as separate computers.