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mouse click problem

I've got this problem for several days. Not sure about the cause.

When I click the mouse button to choose a object, sometimes (often) the first click doesn't work and I have to click for the second time to choose it. Very annoying.

Sometimes after I click and release, it seems the click keeps there and the mouse works like dragging lock. I have to click again to release the mouse.

This problem is not only applied to my mighty mouse, but also to my logitech mouse and the touch pad of my macbook pro.

I wonder if anyone has the same problem, and if anyone knows how to fix it.

Thank you very much.

Macbook pro 2008 late, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Feb 1, 2010 5:51 PM

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Oct 31, 2010 4:40 AM in response to silencesound

It was after my battery drained while sleeping my mouse and trackpad behaved weird.

After a shutdown / startup everything is working fine.

silencesound Author

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Jan 5, 2011 7:48 AM in response to ClemensXyz

Reinstall the system. And with my new Magic Mouse, the problem remains...
I hope, at least in the coming Mac OS X Lion, the problem got solved...

void256

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Jan 7, 2011 1:14 PM in response to silencesound

I'm happy to found this thread because I've started to think that I'm going insane or that I've lost my abilities to operate a mouse correctly! 🙂

I have the same problem with my old Logitech Mouse/M-UAE96. The mouse is connected via USB to my standard mac keyboard which is connected to the USB hub integrated into my monitor.

I think the problem became more obvious or does occur more often over the last weeks. I can't remember that I ever had that issue before and I'm using this mac pro about 1,5 years without any issues :/

Stenu

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Jan 10, 2011 11:12 AM in response to void256

Good to see that others have this issue too. I just took my Magic Mouse to be repaired, but now with an another mouse (USB) I am having the exactly same issue.

I'd say that this has now been happening something like a month or at least couple of weeks. Some update maybe causing this? I am new with Macs, so I have no idea if those are uninstallable. What is the usual way to start to search the cause of these kind of problems with OSX?

ceggert

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Feb 4, 2011 12:03 PM in response to silencesound

I too have the same problems as everyone else here as described. Can someone at Apple please respond?!!!! This mouse problem is driving me crazy

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Feb 4, 2011 1:37 PM in response to silencesound

check accessibility options control pane, and any settings relative to mouse and keyboard.

If those are turned onon, it is possible they are causing the behavior described.

Stenu

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Feb 24, 2011 3:07 AM in response to AJ

I think that the problem is caused by a third party extensions which tries to add more features to Magic Mouse behaviour. I disabled those (e.g. BetterTouchTools) and problems disappeared. Initially I was not sure about those, but after several tries and reboots I'd say that it is now fixed.

A bit pitty as those programs adds some really good features to the standard mouse functionality, but I'd say that fully functioning clicks are still the better choise 🙂

Feb 25, 2011 8:23 PM in response to Stenu

10.6.6 really did a number on my mouse as well. Nothing fancy, just a basic Logitech, 3 button USB mouse.

No extra extensions installed, nothing.

Needless to say, it's making it rather tough to get any real work done. Dragging things around, it's like it is not registering that the button is still held.

Moving a window, cropping in photoshop, moving/cropping clips in final cut. Highlighting text, and the list goes on.

I'd love to know if there is an alternative to reinstalling 10.6, in order to move back to 10.6.5.

This bug certainly has cut my productivity by 40%-50%.

Birdz28

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Mar 9, 2011 8:57 AM in response to silencesound

My Mac has just started displaying these symptoms in the last few days. I am using a Kensington Ci20 USB Optical mouse (this mouse has been on this computer for over 2 years). I see that a lot of people are thinking this is a MacBook Pro problem but I am evidence to the contrary. I am running OSX 10.5.8 and have just started experiencing these "ghost" clicks. It happens in any application, Firefox, FinalCut, Creative Suite. Hope there is a solution found soon.

Mar 26, 2011 7:25 AM in response to silencesound

I have the same problem with the mouse. nothing works. At first I thought it would "Ignore accidental trackpad input", but the enter in terminal of "defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.ignoreTypingFilter -bool NO" as suggested in some topic has not helped. Someone from Apple would have said - it would be a good thing, what to do now? working in many programs is simply dangerous to mental health.

Apr 7, 2011 3:11 AM in response to silencesound

I solved this problem. It was in the "Enable access for assistive device" option. Disabled it, rebooted and everything goooood now. Option was necessary for work PuntoSwitcher.app(now punto don't works), maybe it was within herself. I hope that someone, this information will not go crazy. Good luck in correcting the work of the mouse.

silencesound Author

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Apr 25, 2011 11:49 AM in response to ashshaosh

Thank you, ashshaosh. The problem seems fixed by disable "Enable access for assistive device" option. However, I have two apps relying on this option: FunctionFlip and TextExpander. For now, the only choice is to turn it off. Let's hope this problem will be totally fixed in Lion.

May 10, 2011 1:34 AM in response to silencesound

I lost functionflip too and some functions in bethertouch& let's hope )

silencesound Author

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Jul 27, 2011 9:24 AM in response to silencesound

Hi, this problem seems to be fixed in Lion.

simsarah

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Aug 3, 2011 9:49 AM in response to silencesound

I developed this problem on my late 2008 mbp just before lion was released, and was sometimes able to make it go away by restarting the computer, it is an intermittent thing. I was really pleased to see that it appeared to have been corrected in Lion, both through this thread and my own experience after the upgrade, but just today the trouble has returned - disabling access for assistive devices has resolved the problem again, but that doesn't seem like a useful long-term solution.

tl:dr - still happening in Lion

mouse click problem