Secondary click in Lion, Macbook Pro 4,1

What does preferences-old mean?

I tried deleting the .GlobalPreferences.plist and that didn't work. Still no luck. This is seriously annoying. If anyone can figure out an easy watch to patch this, I'd be very grateful!

Same for me, created another account and worked okay there. Back to my main account and doesn't work (2 finger tap). Funny thing is, the three finger look up didn't work before but does now! Oh, no strike that, 3 finger tap doesn't work anymore!

To workaround this problem on older macbooks, open Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities/ run following command:

defaults -currentHost write -g com.apple.trackpad.enableSecondaryClick -bool YES

then log out and log back in (to disable secondary click pass NO instead of YES as the last argument).

Holy cow. That worked! Thanks so much Maxym! You're a champion!

woop woop 😀 Thanks - worked perfectly!

Thank you!! it worked!

Workaround: Use Magic Trackpad for turn on Secondary Click 🙂

OMG that worked Thank you so much!!! You're the Genius Bar we all wish we had!!!

Maxym you are a god among men.

I deserve 1000 brownies right now. You just saved me 3 and a half weeks of complete aggravation.

Worked perfect. Thanks so much.

For those who still can't get it to work, make sure that the Secondary Click box is unchecked in system prefs before you run the command. If the box is checked, the command will do nothing (from my experience on the first 4 MBPs I've run this command on).

Again, thanks a million Maxym.

Thank You 🙂

Thanks buddy working now secondary click is back again

Unfortunately this does not seem to work for me. Even if it's checked (after logout-login) it's still not working.

its worked for me just did same thing and logout secondary click is back