Sten007

Q: Trackpad's "tap to click" disables itself after every restart

Good morning,

I have a strange issue with my new MBP i5 (bought less than a week ago). For a few days now, Trackpad's "tap to click" function disables itself after every restart and needs to be reenabled.

I've searched around the internet and this forum and it seems that many people have this problem, but only with BootCamp and Windows. Well, I don't use BootCamp and I don't have Windows installed, it seems to be a pure Mac OS X issue.

Am I missing something or is it just a bug? The interesting thing is, it didn't do that at first, only started doing it after a few days' use.

Perhaps someone has a brilliant idea how to fix this, as it really is rather annoying to enable it every morning when I turn the machine on.

Thank you,

Sten

MacBook Pro i5 4GB, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 22, 2011 1:24 AM

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  • by sandlines,

    sandlines sandlines Mar 30, 2011 6:34 AM in response to Sten007
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    Mar 30, 2011 6:34 AM in response to Sten007
    I have this exact same problem and it's driving me nuts. I also have neither BootCamp nor Windows installed.
    Help?
  • by Sten007,

    Sten007 Sten007 Apr 1, 2011 12:18 AM in response to Sten007
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    Apr 1, 2011 12:18 AM in response to Sten007
    Hello again,

    A few days ago I upgraded 10.6.6 to 10.6.7 and the problem disappeared. I was already rejoicing until... the problem reappeared this morning - "tap to click" was again unchecked when I turned the computer on today.

    Does anyone have any idea what's causing it and how to solve the problem?

    Thank you!
  • by Barney-15E,Helpful

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Apr 1, 2011 4:07 AM in response to Sten007
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    Apr 1, 2011 4:07 AM in response to Sten007
    Try deleting the com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist from your Preferences folder.
    Set up your trackpad preferences again and see what happens.
    Sometimes, when preferences don't stay set, the preference file can't be written to and thus the settings can't be saved.
  • by Sten007,

    Sten007 Sten007 Apr 1, 2011 11:56 AM in response to Barney-15E
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    Apr 1, 2011 11:56 AM in response to Barney-15E
    Thank you, Barney!

    It indeed helped (for now).

    I'll see what happens tomorrow morning when I turn the computer on again--if it helps, I'll say it's solved

    Thanks again!
  • by Sten007,

    Sten007 Sten007 Apr 2, 2011 12:28 PM in response to Sten007
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    Apr 2, 2011 12:28 PM in response to Sten007
    Apparently Barney's suggestion worked, at least for now

    I'm utterly grateful!
  • by p.arte,

    p.arte p.arte Aug 5, 2011 11:24 PM in response to Sten007
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    Aug 5, 2011 11:24 PM in response to Sten007

    i would very much like to solve this annoying bug too, but i can't find any file named com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist neither in preference folder nor in anywhere else!

    help please?!

  • by mattrock1,

    mattrock1 mattrock1 Feb 20, 2012 5:57 AM in response to p.arte
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    Feb 20, 2012 5:57 AM in response to p.arte

    Glad to hear I'm not the only one suffering with this one and also hope to find a resolve. It's really been driving me crazy. I don't have Windows or Bootcamp installed nor do I have com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist on my machine. Help tracking down the issue would be greatly appreciated as well. Cheers!

  • by Don Archibald,

    Don Archibald Don Archibald Feb 20, 2012 6:24 AM in response to mattrock1
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    Feb 20, 2012 6:24 AM in response to mattrock1

    The file

    com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist

    should be in the Preferences folder in the Library folder in the user home folder (that's the folder in Users folder with the house icon).

     

    Spotlight generally won't find system-level files. You can use a Finder Find search, but need to set it to look in System files.

  • by mattrock1,

    mattrock1 mattrock1 Feb 20, 2012 6:54 AM in response to Don Archibald
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    Feb 20, 2012 6:54 AM in response to Don Archibald

    Thanks Don! I was able to locate and delete the file. Restarted and looks like my prefs have stuck. Will keep my fingers crossed that this resolves the issue.... Thanks!

     

    p.s. How do I add a 'star' to your reply?

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Feb 20, 2012 8:56 AM in response to mattrock1
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    Feb 20, 2012 8:56 AM in response to mattrock1

    You can't. Only the original poster can reward the helpers.

  • by Khakismack,

    Khakismack Khakismack Feb 20, 2012 2:48 PM in response to Barney-15E
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    Feb 20, 2012 2:48 PM in response to Barney-15E

    This worked for me too! If this problem comes back, it looks like I'll be able to find the file and delete it again.

  • by Ookluh,

    Ookluh Ookluh Mar 3, 2012 4:14 AM in response to Sten007
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    Mar 3, 2012 4:14 AM in response to Sten007

    I will add one more voice to the list of people who this helped.  Thank you Barney-15E, if that is your real name.

  • by bronji,

    bronji bronji May 5, 2012 10:28 AM in response to Sten007
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    May 5, 2012 10:28 AM in response to Sten007

    deleting the com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist only worked for a few weeks for me. The same problem keeps coming back randomly every once in a while. When it does happen again though, going into preferences to delete the file is impossible because it's already gone.

     

    Is the problem reoccuring for anyone else? And does anyone have a more permanent solution to this bug?

  • by briochemc,

    briochemc briochemc May 10, 2013 8:48 AM in response to Sten007
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    May 10, 2013 8:48 AM in response to Sten007

    Similar problem here but it is not at every startup, just randomly... And I don't even have the file com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist at all (so couldn't even try to erase it - from the start). I'm no pro but it shouldn't be that hard to find what's going wrong, right?