Catalina Airdrop Limbo? Thinkpad x240 i7-4600u HD4400

Catalina Airdrop Limbo? Thinkpad x240 i7-4600u HD4400

I understand airdrop needs a connection and bluetooth to work, and that mac os is very finicky with bluetooth and all, but ive seen no information about the situation i somehow got myself into. entering the command i was seeing about enabling airdrop into the terminal, "defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1", and following it up with "killall Finder" i ended here, with the airdrop logo in my finder sidebar, but without the text. pressing it crashes finder, but in my finder.app data, the airdrop app and its contents do exist. anyone have any idea whats going on? currently using a edimax 7611ulb wifi/bluetooth adapter which seems to be working as both perfectly fine.

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Applications

Airdrop in the sidebar crashing finder, and the airdrop application present in finder.

*note that airdrop will not open regardless of whether i use ethernet or the usb wifi/bluetooth adapter

not sure if this is a hackintosh specific occurrence but I haven't seen it anywhere else yet.

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