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Trackpad 2-finger scroll not working

Hello:

I'm an experienced Mac user of four years, and I've replaced my iBook with an Aluminum 2.0Gh Macbook just yesterday. I love the trackpad, but I seem to have a problem with two-finger scrolling: It doesn't scroll with two fingers. The cursor doesn't move, either, when I'm attempting to scroll with two fingers.

The other gestures work fine, including the other two-fingered gestures. I've tried looking in the new Trackpad preferences, but I can't seem to find any options there.

I've migrated my data from my iBook prior to use. I had iScroll 2.0 installed at one point in time in my iBook, but I've uninstalled it.

Thank you,
-woojoo

Macbook Aluminum, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Nov 15, 2008 12:21 PM

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Posted on Nov 15, 2008 12:43 PM

Hi Woojoo,

I responded to another person about this same issue in another thread a couple of days ago. This is a fairly easy issue to fix. If you migrated your files, folders, and preferences from an older machine that had a PPC architecture (a pre-Intel iBook, or PowerBook, etc.) it will bork the two finger scrolling on your new trackpad. To fix it, you can either reinstall the trackpad preferences from the install disk, or I think (although I didn't try it) you can just rename that file and reboot, and the system will reset the default.

Either way, this is a known issue with an easy fix.

I too migrated all of my stuff from my late 2005 iBook to my new MacBook and the only thing that didn't work on the trackpad was the two-finger scrolling.

I just restored all of the default system preferences in the Library>Preferences folder, but you may want to be more selective than that.

If you want more complete info., a quick Google search will net you more specifics.

Anyway, hope that helps.

KC
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Carbonfish
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Nov 15, 2008 12:43 PM in response to woojoo

Hi Woojoo,

I responded to another person about this same issue in another thread a couple of days ago. This is a fairly easy issue to fix. If you migrated your files, folders, and preferences from an older machine that had a PPC architecture (a pre-Intel iBook, or PowerBook, etc.) it will bork the two finger scrolling on your new trackpad. To fix it, you can either reinstall the trackpad preferences from the install disk, or I think (although I didn't try it) you can just rename that file and reboot, and the system will reset the default.

Either way, this is a known issue with an easy fix.

I too migrated all of my stuff from my late 2005 iBook to my new MacBook and the only thing that didn't work on the trackpad was the two-finger scrolling.

I just restored all of the default system preferences in the Library>Preferences folder, but you may want to be more selective than that.

If you want more complete info., a quick Google search will net you more specifics.

Anyway, hope that helps.

KC
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Apr 16, 2009 9:51 AM in response to Snaggy

This is an award-winning tip - had the same issue when I migrated to a new MBP.

That said, speaking of Trackpads, can anyone tell me how to get dragging to work (?!). In the video tutorial they double-click on the top of a window which allows them to drag the window afterward...but when I do that the window minimizes to the tray (which is normal, right?).
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Trackpad 2-finger scroll not working

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