How can I remove a "shared" drive from my Mac?
After much investigation, ultimately this worked for me:
- Go to OSX/Preferences/Sharing/
- Toggle 'File Sharing' on-and-off in the sidebar
- Go back to Finder and see what happens
This seems to force a refresh in Finder, removing old stuck Shared computers. How they get stuck, I don't know. In my case it happened after buying a refurbished Mac and transferring admin rights to my new local user account. The stores' old network computer got stuck in my Shared list.
Some solutions out there involving Finder/Preferences, only serve to hide the unwanted shared computer from the sidebar, not actually removing it.
Unless you can turn off the modem's shared drive the only way to prevent that from showing up is to turn off all "Bonjour computers" from showing up in the sidebar.
- Go to Finder and open a new window.
- Go to the finder menu and select "Preferences..."
- Click the sidebar icon at the top of the Finder Preferences window
- Un-check "Bonjour Computers" and close that window.
Note that will remove any shared device from the sidebar including Windows PCs, other Macs, NAS devices and the like that support auto discovery via TCP.