Right-click not working on trackpad

Hi Lara,

Thank you very much for your kind assistance.

I fixed it. For me, I am using bootcamp, what I needed to do is download Bootcamp 1.0 first (which is hard to find) and the trackpad will be fine after bootcamp installation.

Thanks again.

Cliff Kwok

I had the same problem, but I was able to fix it

Go to System Prefrences > trackpad and check if you have checked both one finger secondary click and two finger secondary click. If that is the case uncheck the Two finger secondary click. Here you go the secondary bottom right/left click will work all fine.

All the best... Hope that answers your question...

Very helpful splizaat.

I was having this problem on my iMac, and I got to the point I figured it was some sort of conflict.

Running Lion, it was under System Preferences — Mission Control. The secondary drop-down bar for Mission Control activation was set to "Secondary Mouse Button", which was why I couldn't get the right-click on my mouse or trackpad to work.

Thanks for the tip.

I faced the same issue with latest(2012) mac book pro 13" (released in June) and could fix the issue using below solution

System Preferences — Mission Control. The secondary drop-down bar for Mission Control activation was set to "Secondary Mouse Button", which was why I couldn't get the right-click on my mouse or trackpad to work.

Right-click stopped working. Called Apple Care. After several procedures, this one worked:

Shut down trackpad

Shut-down computer

Unplug comuputer for 30 seconds.

Start computer

Log in

Start trackpad

Open trackpad preferences

Uncheck secondary click

Check secondary click

Explanation: blue tooth munged

After reading all the above, especially the bluetooth munged bit from Apple care via @downeyt

I turned off bluetooth for a few seconds (turned it back on with digitizing pad as even the keyboard is bluetooth!)

That did the trick!!

This still has not helped me, my secondary button is checked the tap to click is checked, theres no drop down menu for me, idk if that is because this thread is old and im up to the newest version of mac, but my secondary click dosent work, i know that i can use the old way by holding control, but i want it the way it was lol. i have a 2008 (old mac) macbook pro 17 inch, any advice anyone can give me would be of great help!

i did a clean install of ml on my mbp 2009 and after this, i couldn't get the two-finger-rightclick to work. turned out, like runninonmt, i had 1-finger-tap disabled (looks like i depress the touchpad for left-click and make a twofinger-tap for right :-) . because of this the 2-finger-rightclick-tap didn't work, no matter if the box was checked or not. i activated the 1-finger-tap. bingo.

I'm encountering the same issue as Tiktoc.

I first tried to reset the Finder preferences: with deleting the .plist files (in ~/Library/Preferences) for both Finder and the finder sidebar, and then force quitting Finder. This fix Finder for a short moment, but the problem reapears quickly.

The secondary tap is working well with any other application.

If anyone would have a suggestion, I'll be most obliged.

Thanks.

Me too. MacBook Pro. 10.6.8, suddendly the 2 finger secondary tap stopped working in the finder. I've tried just restarting the finder, it's painless and quick but it only works until I navigate away from the finder. Once I come back it's gone.

I am having the same problem. Only in Finder.. only on highlighted files. This is a feature I use regularly. Any help out there?

I have found the "command O" for opening multiple files at once, but what a pain!

I am not super computer literate and love that you all have so much knowledge. I will keep checking back, hoping for an answer!

Thank you!!

I had the very same problem Tiktoc and bereanboarder had:

MBP, 10.6.8.

This weekend, the 2 finger tap stopped working in the finder. It works in other applications just fine.

It's been a couple of weeks since I've installed any updates.

I DID install Google Drive over the weekend - I wonder if that's what broke it?

Confirmed - it's Google Drive.

When Google Drive is running:

Putting the Finder in the background and then pulling it to the foreground breaks 2-finger tap.

If I quit Google Drive and restart Finder, I can freely put the Finder in the background and then pull it to the foreground, and 2-finger tap continues to work properly.

If I re-launch Google Drive, the next time I background-foreground the Finder, 2-finger tap is broken again.

... And it's listed on Google Drive's bug page as a known issue:

"Right-click not working on Google Drive files and folders in Finder's column view on Mac OS X"

http://support.google.com/drive/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=known_issues.cs

A workaround is listed, and the workaround worked for me (albeit at the expense of losing visual status into Google Drive file sync status).

The workaround entails turning off a feature of Google Drive that does "live" switching of your icons to show your file sync status.

My bet is that if you have any kind of application that mucks with your Finder icons like Google Drive does, you increase your chances of encountering this 2-finger click problem.

Thank you, Gregg Kasten!

I have been running Google Drive for months and the problem just started. Not sure how something changed for me, but it did. Your information and the directions on Google Support made it all better.

Thank you for your help.