'Magic' mouse does not scroll

You last responders slay me. It doesn't matter a cluck what Apple calls the mouse, the one with the *trackball doesn't always work. Cleaning the *trackwheel, trackball or whatever you want to call the giz is a good idea, but other than shaking it upside down while manipulating the *trackwheel, trackball or whatevermI don't have an idea HOW to clean it. At least I can spell "rinse."

This was my issue, it seems that someone had another bluetooth mouse hooked up to my work computer before me so I wanted to use my magic mouse (and yes its magic). So once I deleted this file and did a restart my Magic mouse worked again. Thanks!!

I followed the suggested route ---- thru library to extensions, and thru systems to library to extensions, but there IS NO USBOverdrive.kext file for me to trash --- it is NOT listed! Now what do I do? I have had this mouse for 5 or 6 years, never had an issue at all. Just malfunctioned today --- no scrolling at all. Tried all the fixes listed here. Running OSX 10.9.5

Hi all,

I tried everything suggested above (except delete the overdrive file) and nothing fixed my 3yo magic mouse, which had worked without issue until it all of a sudden decided to stop scrolling. Setting were fine etc.

I just disconnected it through the Bluetooth menu, left it on and gave it 10sec to reconnect itself. Voila - scrolling works.

T'was good reading about all these other potential fixes... I've not tweaked my mouse settings.

I found this post because it was happening to me. I realize this sounds like a ridiculously dumb solution, but it worked for me. Someone had suggested restarting your computer, so it made me think to restart the mouse at least. I shut off the mouse (blew a little dust off in the meantime) for a minute or so. Turned it back on and it worked. Not saying it'll work for you, but it did for me.

Good luck!

Much like the original poster to this topic - my mouse was not scrolling with touch but I assume because he was able to scroll with the 1990's scroll bar as I think he referred to it then his mouse was being recognized by the computer but the touch scrolling wasn't working. I am certainly no IT expert - however for those searching for an answer to this - I did not find anything that might explain why it used to touch scroll and now would not but yet i could still move the mouse with it. When i opened the system preferences for the mouse I noticed that the battery indicator said 14%. Ironically my keyboard was already popping up a low battery warning. I simply changed the batteries in the mouse and now it works. So there is obviously a low battery level that will at that point no longer accommodate touch scrolling power needs. With new batteries, mine is functioning 100% now.

Wow! This seemed like my answer, but.... My problem is the scrolling works on a web page when I'm using my Google chrome browser, but it doesn't work in MS Word files. I still have 15% battery. Does anyone have any ideas. Thank you once again...

Bruce

I'm having the same problem. My mouse does not scroll on word documents but will scroll on online pages. I checked systems preferences but could find no "universal access." The mouse section is set on "scroll." Any suggestions? I have the 2011 imac and haven't had problems before now.

I had this same problem randomly and none of the preferences changes or deletion of files worked for me. What did was going into Bluetooth setting, unpairing the trouble mouse, and then pairing it with the computer again.

We had the Mouse stop scrolling but it seemed to be doing everything else- we simply replaced the batteries and it started working again. Maybe we were lucky, but we have worn the batteries down before without the scroll stop working so not sure what made it happen. It is working fine now with new batteries.

CUTTING THROUGH THE RANT ?- WELL HERE'S A RANT -

MINE DIDN'T WORK EITHER - WENT BACK TO A WHEELED MOUSE - TOOK THE MAGIC MIGHTY SUPER DOOPER MOUSE BACK AND WAS TOLD THE FAIL RATE HAS BEEN 50% - JAN 30, 2015.

My magic mouse is now working as expected. In addition to the plist file mentioned above I had to also remove the plist file "com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse" on the same folder. Obviously I am not sure if this is what fixed the issue, but after I removed it and rebooted my macbook air my magic mouse is now back with all its advanced gestures. In addition, the mouse that is show on the screen when the mouse connects/disconnects resembles the magic mouse. Previously, I would be shown a representation of a much older Apple mouse. I hope this helps somebody out there struggling with these annoyances.

I've been experiencing all sorts of issues with the bluetooth connection of my magic mouse to my macbook air since the update to 10.10.2 .

I've tried a number of different approaches but the one that did the trick was turning Wifi off.

Sadly, for some of us, the 10.10.2 update that was supposed to "solve bluetooth issues" actually brought problems that weren't there before.

hi

i had the same problem direct after i bought a new mouse , so i tried to do this way you explained but i can't find the file at all.

i have in mouse setting all old apple gestures and not any scrolling options.

what should i do ?

oh great.... Mine just quit scrolling (it still tracks fine, but the lack of scrolling has proven to be much more of an annoyance and hindrance than i would have guessed). Helluva thing when something this $$ just fails 1/2 the time.