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Like @ffontech (thread) and @Esperanzaz (thread), on my Mac, the Share menu was empty. In System Preferences > Extensions, no items were present for any category, and Share menu showed "Not enabled."
(Config: macOS Big Sur 11.2.3.)
I created another user account. Logging in as that user, the sharing options appeared as expected.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.2
To solve this, I opened ~/Library/Preferences and found several extensions-related preferences files:
com.apple.preferences.extensions.CredentialProvider.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.PhotoEditing.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.PhotoProjects.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.QuickLook.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.ServicesWithUI.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.SharedLinks.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.XcodeSourceEditor.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.FinderSync.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.ShareMenu.plist
Using plutil (plutil -convert xml1), I converted com.apple.preferences.extensions.ShareMenu.plist to a text-based plist and confirmed the contents looked sensible.
I moved the files aside. Logging out and back in didn't fix the problem, but rebooting did, and my share options were back to normal:
I probably didn't need to move all nine of them, but I didn't feel like doing a binary search and waiting through multiple reboots.
To solve this, I opened ~/Library/Preferences and found several extensions-related preferences files:
com.apple.preferences.extensions.CredentialProvider.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.PhotoEditing.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.PhotoProjects.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.QuickLook.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.ServicesWithUI.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.SharedLinks.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.XcodeSourceEditor.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.FinderSync.plist
com.apple.preferences.extensions.ShareMenu.plist
Using plutil (plutil -convert xml1), I converted com.apple.preferences.extensions.ShareMenu.plist to a text-based plist and confirmed the contents looked sensible.
I moved the files aside. Logging out and back in didn't fix the problem, but rebooting did, and my share options were back to normal:
I probably didn't need to move all nine of them, but I didn't feel like doing a binary search and waiting through multiple reboots.
Share menu not enabled
