Possible temporary fix for mouse scroll wheel problem in Lion

I use a Logitech M505 wireless mouse, but don't get the checkmark box in the preference pane you mention. Unhappily dont have another rmouse handy here. If anyone comes up with another solution to reverse the mouse scrolling, please let us know.

You're right! There was a check box, though i didn't think it applied to this problem — redaing more carefully, I realized it could, unchecked the box, and hurray! the thing scrolls the good old way again. Thanks for quick reply.

Thank you to post this, Paradox!

I have a MacBook Pro and on mine I just changed the setting on the trackpad, and it changed it for my mouse.

It´s correct that the scroll direction changes made on the Trackpad WILL change the scroll direction for the mouse.

There is another way. Use a little utility called Scroll Reverser.

http://blog.pilotmoon.com/post/4041089648/scroll-reverser-get-in-practice-for-li on

Is it possible to set up the mouse scroll direction other than the trackpad direction ?

App le: We are god. Do it our way or else, sheesh.

I had to go next door and borrow a WINDOWS mouse to make my Macintosh work. Crazy.

The thing is, under 10.7.1 I had that option, now with 10.7.2 it's gone.

as I said already in several posts:

the Lion direction is the same as you would do on a touch screen, If you want to change that use a free utility called Scroll Reverser, and you can set all directions too.

William, do you mean it, or was your post to madmonkey sarcasm?😊

I mean it. Apple makes major changes in the way things have worked for years, then makes that change the default, causing 1m people to struggle. Bad Bad App le.

There other changes like this in Lion as well, which are arbitrary and are "App le" policy now, which even App le themselves do not follow! (e.g. Cmd-Delete for "Don't Save" in a few App le applications, where 900 million people have used Cmd-<first letter of button> already, for years)

And yes, I did have to go next door and borrow a mouse. "Why?" they said... "I have a Mac" I said. "<laughter> get a real computer" they said. App le does itself no favors by pulling this stuff.

Many of us cannot buy new equipment when arbitrary changes are made, and "get a new driver" is a slap in the face, especially when such changes as Reversing scroll for many-millions could easily be done by making the "new way" an Option, not a default.

Don't get me wrong, Mac and iPhone etc are way ahead of MS and all, but the rabid arrogance inside App le is App aulling.

But if you bought a Mac, at least you read the VERY few pages on how to use it?

Like one touch mouse: hold the Alt key to have the Rightclick effect on windows, or on the Trackpad.

Use any two button mouse if you cannot live with that. But at least read some pages of the manual...

I would never let you drive my car if it is different from the one you have.

What if you buy a new car: would you buy the one that was produced 10 years ago, or the new model (let alone for the coffeemaker.

I am not patronizing, this is a real comment.

Sorry? what exactly are you saying?

I have had Macs since '85, I built my own first mouse in 1972, wooden with a button. My Master's thesis (MIT, The Spatial Data Management System 1978) used a desktop metaphor long before the Mac, 35 yrs of human interface design etc

New car? Suppose all new cars suddenly had joysticks instead of steering wheels? How many deaths would result?

Why? Because some twerp of a manager at App le doesn’t care that he disrupts the lives of millions?

For what? Ego? Just to make your mark on the world? Hate end users? "I know this will confuse them... HA ahahahahah!" Crazy.