magic mouse software not installed

Try smc and pram reset.

When the preferences don't show up it's usually a conflict with 3rd party software. USB overdrive has a known conflict. Uninstall it and restart.

If you have 10.6.8 installed then you have the required support for the Magic Mouse.

Regards,

Captfred

Do you have the bluetooth preference pane? If so try pairing the mouse from it and then see if the mouse prefpane shows the MM controls (may have to relaunch system preferences first).

I parried the mouse several times using the preference pane and the drop down from the menu bar under finder. Nothing.

It's still not clear to me you answered my previous question, i.e., was the preference pane you used the mouse prefpane or the bluetooth prefpane, i.e., is there a bluetooth prefpane?

Also, if you open your System Profiler and click on Bluetooth under Hardware, does it show it recognizes the BT hardware is present?

This is almost always caused by a conflict with 3rd party drivers.

Regards,

Captfred

First verify that you've updated to 10.6.8 in  > about this mac. Native support of the MM occured somewhere around 10.6.2.

Have you attached other devices like a Wacom tablet etc.

I'm still unclear which iMac you have since you say it's a 2007 iMac 27". The first 27" came out in 2009, so if it's a 2007 then probably a 24". That model (in later years) had Leopard installed 10.5

Edit:

If you find that you have 10.5.8 installed, then you need this update:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL951

Did you ever find out how to fix this because I'm having the exact same problem. I actually returned a touchpad a few weeks back because I thought the thing didnt support scrolling. No kidding! So I get the mouse today and it doesn't allow me to scroll.

I check dozens of sites where people parrot the same thing "Well ahh it umm should only happen if some other software is conflicting" - and in my situation, as well as yours, no - no it is not. I never had any other USB related software on this machine.

Yes it is 10.6.8 and yes it is completely updated.

Heck I even ran some OnyX cleanup today just to make sure.

I even tried to circumvent the lack of the 'Enable Scrolling" checkbox (or the entire menu it should be in) by installing MagicPrefs - and it just gives me a big red ! over the icon.

Further research shows I'm missing some stuff in my library - important things like "com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultiTouch.plist" (I see the one for my touchpad from Dec) but nothing for the MM.

I did install this bluetooth update - which made me yank the mouse and re-add it: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL889

Basically I'm stuck wonder when OS X became as crappy as Windows because I should never have to spend this amount of time finding out that other people have this problem - and nobody has a fix.

Hi!

Did you find a solutioin to this? My friend has the same problem.

Cheers,

Sigge

This may not be exactly relevant to the original post, but to avoid any confusion, and possibly help others who come here looking for their solution, here is what I have found.

Magic Mouse 2, which came out in 2015 and has integrated battery and lightning port for charging, does NOT work with Yosemite (or any prior version of Mac OS X).

Having recently purchased Magic Mouse 2 for a six-month old Mac Pro (trashcan) still running Yosemite, I had struggled and googled far and wide for a solution to the problem that manifests itself exactly as the original post here. The mouse will pair with the Mac, but the preferences pane looks like a generic two-button mouse, instead of the regular Magic Mouse pane. The mouse works, but only with two buttons; none of the swiping actions work (for scrolling, or left-right), nor do the tap (or multi-tap) features. Apparently, there is no way to install a driver that would support the new Magic Mouse 2 in the old Yosemite OS (or anything older, for that matter). The only solution is to upgrade the OS to El Capitan, which is what I'll be doing tonight.

In other words, you get this:

When you need this: