Odd items showing under Security & Privacy in System Preferences

[macrlz9]

Just curious if anyone else is seeing Finder or "sharedfilelistd" under the Photos section of the Security & Privacy System Pref pane. Not sure why they are there but I unchecked them. I have 3 other Macs in the house and none of the other ones have them listed there.

Final Cut Pro makes sense because when I opened FCP, it asked permission to access my photos. I didn't get any other pop ups.

I'm not concerned really, just curious why they are there and if I'm the only one.

 

[pentool]

Nope. The section for Photos on my end is completely blank. I do have photos and used the Photos app.

 

[mikeyiphone]

Just curious if anyone else is seeing Finder or "sharedfilelistd" under the Photos section of the Security & Privacy System Pref pane. Not sure why they are there but I unchecked them. I have 3 other Macs in the house and none of the other ones have them listed there.

Final Cut Pro makes sense because when I opened FCP, it asked permission to access my photos. I didn't get any other pop ups.

I'm not concerned really, just curious why they are there and if I'm the only one.

I have it as well. Not sure why it is there.

 

[haralds]

On stackexchangee:
"In a nutshell, sharedfileslistd is an XPC helper agent that provides SharedFilesLists private API in CoreServices that gets called by, for instance, by LaunchServices APIs and works with so-called SharedFilesLists - special property lists that contain NSURL BookmarkData entries. These are used for recent documents/servers/hosts that you see in Apple->Recent Items menu, Favourites/iCloud items/Bonjour hosts that appear in the Finder sidebar, Recent Documents in applications' Save/Open dialogs) and such.

sharingd is sharing daemon that enables AirDrop, Handoff, Instant Hotspot, Shared Computers, and Remote Disc in the Finder."

 

[macrlz9]

On stackexchangee:
"In a nutshell, sharedfileslistd is an XPC helper agent that provides SharedFilesLists private API in CoreServices that gets called by, for instance, by LaunchServices APIs and works with so-called SharedFilesLists - special property lists that contain NSURL BookmarkData entries. These are used for recent documents/servers/hosts that you see in Apple->Recent Items menu, Favourites/iCloud items/Bonjour hosts that appear in the Finder sidebar, Recent Documents in applications' Save/Open dialogs) and such.

sharingd is sharing daemon that enables AirDrop, Handoff, Instant Hotspot, Shared Computers, and Remote Disc in the Finder."

Thank you for the explanation of what those processes are responsible for. I did a quick google to first make sure it was a legit macOS process so I don’t feel concerned about it really just have no idea why they would show up in that section in System Preferences. Seems random.

 

[TrenttonY]

Thank you for the explanation of what those processes are responsible for. I did a quick google to first make sure it was a legit macOS process so I don’t feel concerned about it really just have no idea why they would show up in that section in System Preferences. Seems random.

On stackexchangee:
"In a nutshell, sharedfileslistd is an XPC helper agent that provides SharedFilesLists private API in CoreServices that gets called by, for instance, by LaunchServices APIs and works with so-called SharedFilesLists - special property lists that contain NSURL BookmarkData entries. These are used for recent documents/servers/hosts that you see in Apple->Recent Items menu, Favourites/iCloud items/Bonjour hosts that appear in the Finder sidebar, Recent Documents in applications' Save/Open dialogs) and such.

sharingd is sharing daemon that enables AirDrop, Handoff, Instant Hotspot, Shared Computers, and Remote Disc in the Finder."

I just got this after I dragged a photo from the Photos.app to the Previews.app icon in the dock, which open the image in Preview.

I wish Apple would give this process a proper name instead of "sharedfilelistd". Scared me at first.