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How to enable file share when it stopped working in legacy macOS like Catalina.

This seems to be an issue with older macOS software. If you search the internet you will find many forums of people complaing they are unable to enable SMB file share options in system settings (Preferences) for legacy machine macOS. Here we are going to show you the easy fix using terminal which will not require a reboot. Note you will need to be logged in as admin (root old school) as you are going to execute a sudo command.

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How to format a Mac Drive in Terminal

Here is a few sample examples of how to format a drive in Terminal.

Click Applications > Utilities > Terminal.

Always run Diskutil list. This will show you the list of the drives on that computer which will help you identify which drive name is needed to for the DiskNoteID at the end of the terminal command.

Formatting a Disk to Mac OS Extended Journaled (JHFS+) from Terminal in Mac OS X

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ DiskName /dev/DiskNodeID

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Install Legacy version of Google Chrome on Catalina macOS

Here is a new update of the Google Chrome Legacy version for Macs.

So Chrome will only allow the installation of its software if you are running macOS 11 or higher.  (Big Sur) Anything before that unless you had installed Chrome before Google pulled its support you won’t be able to install Google Chrome.

There is however a few options for you.

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