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Secondary Click on Original MacBook Air (2008) Won't Stay On

The title says it all: Original (early 2008) MacBook Air, upgraded today to Lion. When I go into System Preferences > Trackpad, the Secondary Click checkbox is turned OFF. If I turn it on and then exit System Preferences, secondary click does NOT work and if I go back in to System Preferences > Trackpad, the checkbox is turned OFF again.

Has anyone else seen this? Anyone have any ideas as to how to remedy this issue? Apple? Bueller?

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7), early 2008 MacBook Air

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 7:18 PM

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Jul 21, 2011 2:21 PM in response to Clayton C. Johanson

Me too! Exactly the same problem.

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Jul 21, 2011 2:21 PM in response to Clayton C. Johanson

Hi, You might want to follow this discussion:

Secondary click in Lion, Macbook Pro 4,1

Anyway, it's probably a bug and so far apparently no solution apart from waiting for a patch.

R

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Jul 22, 2011 10:40 AM in response to Clayton C. Johanson

Clayton, in the discussion:

Secondary click in Lion, Macbook Pro 4,1

There is the answer and it works 🙂

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Jul 25, 2011 12:07 PM in response to Clayton C. Johanson

Happened to me too. I talked with AppleCare today to get it fixed. They gave me a different way than in the other thread.

First they had me verify that it worked if I created a new account on my Air.

To fix it I had to back up my Users/.../Library/Preferences directory then wipe it out and reboot. That did it!

(did need to copy com.apple.mail.plist back)

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Secondary Click on Original MacBook Air (2008) Won't Stay On

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