Macbook Pro 4,1 trackpad right-click

I also have this problem. Please help!

Nuno

Yeap, looks like APPLE-no-CARE about ppl with older hardware... same here... lets stand by on the "Software update..."

I also have this problem!!!! 😟 heeeelp 😕

David

Me too! ..and also a friend....

I have a new Air and I have to use the keystrokes too. I sent a feedback to Apple requesting a gesture or something so I can right click with the trackpad. We'll see.

I have the same MacBookPro and the same problem. 😠

Count me in too

The video for secondary click looks the same as the one above too

I have figured out that tapping the trackpad with two fingers together, at the same time, it acts as a right click. At least it does in the finder and browsers. Most likely in other programs also. Haven't needed it.

Hope this helps.

I have a 4,1 MBP and the secondary click preference is working fine for me. This was with both an upgrade of SL and the unsupported clean install of Lion burned to a DVD. I think there was at least one other person with a 4,1 MBP and we did not experience any issues with the secondary click using the built-in trackpad. And I believe there were a couple of people with older MBPs and I do not recall reading any reports of non-functioning secondary click. (Just complaints that they couldn't use gesturing.) So I do not believe Apple "doesn't care". But of course they are concentrating on machines that have the newer no-button trackpads, as gesturing is obviously easier on those since the trackpad is larger.

I'm not sure what preference file to check/delete. Hopefully someone who knows will post. I would suggest verifying/repairing your disk with Disk Utility, just in case it's a corrupted preference file. (I had similar experiences in the past.) Otherwise, all I can think of is a clean install. Either by clean install SL, then upgrade to Lion or clean install Lion.

I have the same problem.

Enabling Secondary Click in the Trackpad Options in System Preferences will select the option, but the next time I check in System Preferences, it got unselected again. And no surprise, double finger tap doesn't work. And the secondary click tutorial video is missing too.

Lion with MacBook Air 2,1 (Mid June 2009).

I've some additional info to add though:

1. The problem only occurs for one user profile created after the upgrade to Lion. Not another one and not the one which was migrated. I.e., other users can still two-finger tap!!

2. Therefore, a deletion and recreation of a user will most likely cure the problem. I don't think an entire clean install is in order. But I don't recommend to do this: As it may happen again and over again 😟

3. Even for the user profile with the problem, two-finger tap *did* initially work just fine. It broke some time after. Lion is the most current patch as of the date I write this.

I really suspect there is a glitch in writing some user preferences file. Anybody knows which file this preference is stored in?

And APPLE: please fix.

I just found a possible work around in an older thread here,

-> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3189974?answerId=15687391022#15687391022

quote:

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

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).

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).

I'll try it out and report back. But I can't check it right now. Maybe, somebody else can report back too.

didn't work for me - tried a couple of times deselecting the option in control panel first then running the command.

What DID work was also selecting the "Tap to click" option above "secondary click" and secondary click started working!

Same problem

I think I figured it out, use 2 fingers to click the trackpad button, and the right-click menu will appear.

same problem

apple please act on this 😕