'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!!

Thank you so much. I've been waiting a lon time for a post like this to help me get my scrolling to work again. again thank you so much.

Here's a good tutorial with pictures: http://myappleforums.com/magic-mouse/magic-mouse-scroll-not-working/

I had a similar problem with my mouse not scrolling. The horizontal swipe worked ok, but not the vertical. Apple support talked me through an option which has sorted out the problem. I guess this might not work for everyone, but worth a shot…

• Go to System Preferences>Accessibility (formerly 'universal access')
• Select Mouse & Trackpad from the menu on the left hand side
• Click on Mouse Options button bottom right
• in the small pop up window ensure that the scrolling box is checked and 'without inertia' selected from the drop down menu.

Worked for me. Good luck.

I had the same issue as AliWonder ... and bearconfidence provided the solution.

Not obvious.

Thanks,

Brian

Tried this. Does not work!

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.

If this helps anyone, I was just having a similar problem and found a simple solution that worked like a charm on another board. My issue was that my Magic Mouse used to work just fine. Suddenly, tonight it decided not scroll within windows at all. (So, no scrolling within Finder window, iTunes iPod Manager window, etc.) Yet, it would scroll on Safari web pages like nothing was wrong. I followed another poster's advice from a different board and voila! So, I am hoping that maybe it would help clear up the issue for you as well. *fingers crossed* Here goes:

"Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.

Log out/in and test. If it works okay, delete the plist(s) from the desktop.

If the same, return the .plist(s) to where you got them from, overwriting the newer ones."

(Thanks to Eric Root! magic mouse doesn't scroll in finder windows )

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BTW, update if that solution works for anyone else! 🙂