How to Disable Shared Places in Finder on Mac

In this article we will show you how to Disable Shared Places in Finder on Mac. If you want to share files with people who link to your Mac over a network or the Internet, you can set up shared folders with the Finder and use Apple’s System Preferences to turn file sharing on or off globally. If you no longer want to let people view files on your Mac, you can turn off sharing right from the Finder. If you want to know more information about this visit official Apple support site.

If you’ve ever joined a public Wi-Fi network and noticed that the Finder sidebar is suddenly full of computers and network shares you don’t know, and then clicked on one of them out of curiosity, you probably found that most of these computers have a user “Public Folder” that you and everyone else can access. In the macOS Finder, the sidebar is on the left side of every window. It has small icons and names for groups and other things.

How to Disable Shared Places in Finder on Mac

• We access System preferences and later we bite into Share.
• Inside the window Share we will be able to see a left sidebar in which different items appear that allow us to share from files, screen, printers, remote session, Internet sharing, Bluetooth sharing, etc.
• As you can see in each of them you have the possibility to mark them or not. If we click on Share files, you will see that the series is already predefined “Public folder of your user”.
• If you want to eliminate that people can even enter that folder, just select it and click on the “-” button.
• If you want to share a specific folder with users, just press “+” and navigate through the Finder until you find the one you want and select it.
• If you notice, in the right part of the window when you click on a certain folder and add it, you can select who can enter or not. You will be able to select the people who have the right to see the content of those folders that you are going to share.

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