Cursor is stuck on mini mac

My cursor is stuck in the upper left corner of my mini mac. Absolutely nothing will move it but if I open in recovery mode the cursor works fine there - what do I do?

Mac mini, macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 25, 2019 6:35 AM

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Mar 26, 2019 3:51 AM in response to Toostonedtoroll

That doesn't seem to link so here's the info cut and pasted


How to Enable Bluetooth on Mac Without a Mouse in Mac OS X


This demonstrates how to enable Bluetooth if you only can connect a

keyboard to a Mac. This is common if your Mac uses a Bluetooth mouse or

trackpad and somehow Bluetooth is disabled, where it can be extra

challenging to get the service turned on again. Fortunately as long as

you have a keyboard handy (USB or otherwise), plug it in and you can

enable Bluetooth with just that keyboard by following these

instructions:

  1. Connect a USB keyboard to the Mac (or use the built-in keyboard on a MacBook laptop)
  2. Hit Command+Spacebar to bring up Spotlight, then type in “Bluetooth File Exchange” and hit the Return key
  3. This launches the Bluetooth File Exchange app, which will
  4. immediately recognize that Bluetooth is turned off, simply hit the
  5. “Return” key again to choose the “Turn Bluetooth On” button







  6. Once Bluetooth is enabled, quit out of Bluetooth File Exchange app

You can also navigate to and through the Bluetooth settings with just

the keyboard, but that’s quite a bit more complex than simply searching

for the app which triggers the service enabler directly.

Mar 26, 2019 3:49 AM in response to dwb

Well, in the end you bums were no help at all were you !? (j/k) I'm glad to report to everyone that I just kept up with the net searches and found the following page and it actually worked!!!!! Such a huge relief!


anyway for future reference if anyone else encounters the same problem - here http://osxdaily.com/2016/07/16/enable-bluetooth-without-keyboard-mouse-mac/

Mar 25, 2019 4:28 PM in response to dwb

Hi, just tried restarting in safe mode twice - nothing changed, the mouse does not work. lllaass asked "Did you do anything since it last worked OK?" and the answer is still 'no', but . . . reading through the support site the only thing I can think of is in January '18 my local store replaced a HDD (1TB WD Blue HDD - whatever that means) and did a data recovery. Since it is my second comp - but with loads of important data on it I have been sifting through the bulk of the data and deleting and compiling - so not sure if that has triggered something?

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