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Q: Disable swipe to delete/archive in El Capitan Mail?

I've just installed El Capitan and the new "feature" of swiping to delete/archive in Mail really annoys me. It doesn't go very well with the Apple mouse. I'd like to disable it. How can I do that? I guess there's some kind of Terminal command to do it.

 

And please don't answer that the feature is actually good and that I just don't understand it. That was not my question.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 1:57 AM

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  • by 750 H2C,

    750 H2C 750 H2C Oct 7, 2015 12:03 AM in response to 750 H2C
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    Oct 7, 2015 12:03 AM in response to 750 H2C

    I have now temporarily solved this problem by installing MagicPrefs, which gives me the ability to turn off one-finger scrolling and replace it with two-finger scrolling, meaning that scrolling from now on requires two fingers on the mouse.

     

    Any accidental scrolling of the kind I mentioned, or in any other app, is blocked. With this solution, I'm spared all the frustration and time lost on trying to get back to where I was in InDesign and similar after being totally swept away just because my finger slid a fraction of a millimeter over the mouse surface.

     

    The downside is that inertial scrolling is also disabled, but the more I work without it, the more I realise that it's kind of nice to have a bit more control of the way things scroll. Inertial scrolling gives you an impression of swiftness, but to be honest, it also makes it a bit difficult to control exactly where to end up after scrolling.

     

    I'll keep using MagicPrefs until Apple adds the same functionality to their own mouse preference pane. And yes, I have asked them to implement it. But knowing Apple, I'd say that it'll take a decade or so if it happens at all.

  • by johnoroak,

    johnoroak johnoroak Oct 29, 2015 5:28 PM in response to 750 H2C
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    Oct 29, 2015 5:28 PM in response to 750 H2C

    It is a very annoying feature...biggest mistake I made was upgrading to El Capitan and the resulting Apple Mail issues. Thanks for the tip.

  • by AussieAnno,

    AussieAnno AussieAnno Nov 2, 2015 6:43 AM in response to 750 H2C
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    Nov 2, 2015 6:43 AM in response to 750 H2C

    Thank you for this tip! 

     

    Apple - the swipe to trash in Mail is very bloody annoying - at least have a setting to turn it off.....

  • by johnoroak,

    johnoroak johnoroak Nov 2, 2015 7:33 AM in response to AussieAnno
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    Nov 2, 2015 7:33 AM in response to AussieAnno

    "Bloody annoying" couldn't have put it better

  • by DDD-MAN,

    DDD-MAN DDD-MAN Nov 3, 2015 7:27 AM in response to AussieAnno
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    Nov 3, 2015 7:27 AM in response to AussieAnno

    Agreed - i hate this feature because i've become very close multiple times to accidentally removing an email that i want to keep.  Swiping is best for touch-screens - not mice.

  • by DocSteve4,

    DocSteve4 DocSteve4 Nov 9, 2015 11:46 PM in response to 750 H2C
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    Nov 9, 2015 11:46 PM in response to 750 H2C

    Yes, this annoys the **** out of me too, although otherwise I'm a big fan of the Apple mouse.

  • by DocSteve4,

    DocSteve4 DocSteve4 Nov 9, 2015 11:47 PM in response to DocSteve4
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    Nov 9, 2015 11:47 PM in response to DocSteve4

    And it really gives me the ***** when Apple replaces h e l l with ****. Just thought I'd mention that.

  • by Leopardus,

    Leopardus Leopardus Nov 10, 2015 2:43 AM in response to DocSteve4
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    Nov 10, 2015 2:43 AM in response to DocSteve4

    Another great little application to use in this case is Better Touch Tool if you want to adjust the swipes to suit your needs.

     

    Leo

  • by tsubasa,

    tsubasa tsubasa Nov 20, 2015 10:48 AM in response to Leopardus
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    Nov 20, 2015 10:48 AM in response to Leopardus

    I installed BetterTouchTool and created Mail-specific gestures for MM. I set both "Swipe Left" and "Swipe Right" with one finger to "Do Nothing." It did not override the existing gestures in El Cap. So unless you've gotten BTT to handle this scenario and can give us steps to reproduce your success, this is not a solution to the issue.

  • by pinkstones,

    pinkstones pinkstones Nov 20, 2015 1:10 PM in response to 750 H2C
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    Nov 20, 2015 1:10 PM in response to 750 H2C

    I don't recommend installing third-party extensions or apps meant to override basic functions of your operating system.  That's a good way for things to go wrong in a hurry.

  • by FreeTrader,

    FreeTrader FreeTrader Nov 21, 2015 9:09 AM in response to 750 H2C
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    Nov 21, 2015 9:09 AM in response to 750 H2C

    Why they want to make a Mac act like an iPad is beyond me.  It's not like Apple has a touch screen laptop or that the iPad Pro is running El Capitan.  Bad design decision that was not thought through (or was this a hint on what the next generation products are).  :-)

     

    Hope they put a switch to turn it off (it ain't that hard).

  • by mariell.com,

    mariell.com mariell.com Nov 23, 2015 11:08 AM in response to FreeTrader
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    Nov 23, 2015 11:08 AM in response to FreeTrader

    Magic Prefs seem to be able to turn this off if you set the scrolling zone on the mouse under Preferences > Configure Scrolling, however this is a global change which makes other apps harder to use.

     

    The default behavior in Mail is terrible for Magic Mouse users. Let's hope someone posts a Terminal command to disable this.

     

    Mail.app seems to be getting steadily worse over time... 

  • by johnoroak,

    johnoroak johnoroak Dec 2, 2015 7:17 AM in response to AussieAnno
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    Dec 2, 2015 7:17 AM in response to AussieAnno

    Just discovered that if you open an email by clicking in the middle of the highlighted line instead of the left end the email will open without all the wiggling and the 'swipe to trash' showing up.

  • by siggisigdk,

    siggisigdk siggisigdk Dec 7, 2015 1:39 AM in response to 750 H2C
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    Dec 7, 2015 1:39 AM in response to 750 H2C

    Using MagicPrefs to disable one-finger scrolling system-wide is not the ideal solution as it's actually useful in other applications.

     

    The Mail.app is close to useless when using the Magic Mouse. The slide function in Mail is hysterically hypersensitive and you can't touch any part of the top surface of the mouse without Mail going into slide-frency-mode. This needs to be addressed ASAP.

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