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ignore accidental trackpad is not there

I recently bought a MacBook Pro at BestBuy.. It's my first Mac and I LOVE IT, but I've got one major issue.


I'm constantly accidentally hitting the trackpad while typing sending the mouse all over everywhere... I read on the web that I can use an option to "ignore accidental trackpad imputs" but that option does not exist on my system... What gives?


it's got the Lion OS, brand new computer.


Any help would be appreciated.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 17, 2012 2:26 PM

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Aug 16, 2012 11:21 PM in response to shldr2thewheel

shldr2thewheel wrote:


The "Ignore accidental trackpad input" trackpad option no longer appears in System Preferences. Functionality for "Ignore accidental trackpad input" is enabled automatically, by default for these computers.



http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3009


Under Mountain Lion it doesn't appear to be enabled by default, there's seemingly no way to turn it on, and it's driving me nuts.

Nov 13, 2012 1:05 PM in response to jamiefromovalo

Has there been any update to this? I just upgraded to ML today and I am already having a terrible time with the trackpad while typing. Like most long term Apple users, I don't take to change very well. I use both my trackpad and mouse. I don't want to have to disable the trackpad entirely, it would effect my workflow. I also use magicprefs, and I thought there might at least be a setting for this in there, but there isn't. Whatever Apple has done with the automatic ignore feature, it doesn't work. Any help on this subject would be greatly appreciated. If you know something, please share it!


PS~ My cursor jumped twcie from accidental input just while I was typing this. Ahhhh!!!!!

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