Great!. Now. How would one delete an entry in the "My Computers" group if they were to misspell it the first time - speaking hypothetically, of course. ;)

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Hi Coumerelli,

I asked myself the same question after playing around with this a bit ;)

In the end, after non of the usual key combinations seem to work, I opened the

com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist

where you can edit/delete the "SavedComputers" entries.

Hope this helps.

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After banging my head on this for a little while, I wanted to clarify the hints regarding removing computers in the My Computer section of the Bonjour Browser of Screen Sharing.

There are several com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist files scattered around the filesystem. The one you want (which I found after opening several) is in ~username/Library/Preferences. Double-click to open with Property List Editor, then expand the Root entry by clicking on the triangle next to it. Locate the SavedComputers entry and expand it. Any computer that you've saved to My Computers in Screen Sharing will appear here. Simply select the entry for the machine you wish to remove and hit the Delete button towards the top of the Property List Editor window.

The Bonjour Browser (and indeed Screen Sharing in general) is a great feature - hopefully future versions will be slightly more user-friendly and allow, for example, removal of machines from the My Computers list without having to edit a plist file.

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Look for file com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist and open it with Property List Editor. Look for ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug entry and change Boolean to Yes. Save, exit and open ScreenSharing.

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Awesome hint! I wonder if it's just accessing the ARD database. Does anyone still have ARD installed to see?

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That does seem to be the case. I.e. the list of computers that Remote Desktop finds via Bonjour is identical to those that the Screen Sharing app lists.

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The Bonjour part of the browser window shows each of my Macs twice, including the Mac that I'm currently on. I am syncing preferences via .Mac. Not sure if that matters.

By the way, if anyone wants to know what happens if you Screen Share to a computer and then Screen Share back to the original computer, I posted the results at http://tj.tntluoma.com/apple/recursive-infinity

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I opened Screen Sharing.app both before and after running this command, and there was no change. "Bonjour" was an option the entire time. Perhaps 10.5.2 shows it automatically? Anyone with 10.5.1 able to check?

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I guess to command to return to the "normal" behavior would be:
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 0

(Or should we simply delete the entry in the .plist file?)
I.E.
defaults delete com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug

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With Mac OS X 10.5.5 the Screen-Sharing app crashes upon quitting when the bonjour browser is enabled as described in the original post. Up to 10.5.4 it worked perfectly.

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This doesn't seem to work on Snow Leopard :(

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You can still easily create shortcuts, for example to keep a folder of your most used remote machines. To create new shortcuts: once connected, drag the proxy icon (in the Screen Sharing's title bar) to that folder on your local computer.

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Interestingly, while the suggested solution does work, it creates an alias pointing to

~/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing

... The original vncloc files are simply structured XML with a vnc:// URL to the computer. Someone could probably AppleScript up a pretty nice interface to the computers you've already accessed; but the Bonjour browser was nice because it gave you a real-time list of what was available on the network. I suppose that's functionality present in the Finder's sidebar window... Hmm... g=

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Is there a 10.6 variant?

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The latest Leopard 10.5 security update ( 2009-006 ) appears to disable the Screen Sharing Bonjour Browser completely in every system I've updated. Very disappointing. It was such a useful tool which my and my co-workers used on a daily basis. Now, clicking on the Screen Sharing icon launches the app. but no window or even a connect-to dialog appears.



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Yep. Just found that out today.
Grrr...

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