Mouse cursor disappears.

Yeah, I thought that NDA would be an issue, but people have been posting things about 10.9 online, so I figured it was worth a shot.

I had this problem months ago with a Macbook Pro and so joined this discussion (my tip about the 3 finger swipe). However it went away for no obvious reason. It was mainly a problem with Mail. I dont use Photoshop.

Anyway, I was just reading a review of changes between Lion and Mountain Lion and it was pointed out that the smooth scrolling feature had changed. It occurred to me that this might be linked to the disappearing cursor problem. As I no longer have this problem I cannot test it. Here is a link with a tip for disabling smooth scrolling

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120726122633912

The ML/Lion comparison is here:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/the-10-features-removed-from-mountain-lion- that-we-miss-the-most/

Add me to the list of victims of a disappearing mouse. I just purchased a new 13" Macbook Air i5 and installed Illustrator CS5.1. Doing a little art and noticed that half of the tools don't show up when I go to do something (ie, pick the rectangle tool to draw a square and have the cursor disappears. I can draw the square but have no idea where it is). The only thing that I can think of is that it is related to either the processor or graphics of the new Macbook Air. The computer the Air replaced was a 2011 (early) Macbook Pro with the quadcore 2.0 ghz i7 processor. Never had any issues with the cursor on the Pro - and still don't.

Both computers are running OS 10.8.4 and Illustrator version 15.1.0. All I can say is that this cursor problem is driving me crazy - talk about lost productivity.

Michael thank you for your suggest, but unfortunately did not give positive results, at least it was an attempt, my productivity is continuing to be lost.

My situation is a little like Michael's...the god news is I no longer have this problem - well , so far - but perhaps for a different reason.

Its been a good six months since I last participated in this forum -- i just got too frustrated following the trail of problems and potential workarounds (which didn't work for me)- no one seemed to be having any better experiences trying to solve the problem in any permanent way, the problem was erratic but not there all the time....so I just plugged away . Mind you I tend to use only dreamweaver and fireworks from cs (but the problem occurred when using browsers too so??) ...see below for why that matters....... I associate the problem with the installation of Mountain Lion, my use of adobe cs 5.5 and cs 6 (on two differetn machines), the disabling and subsequent patches of java by apple, and oracle.

How these pieces fit together i haven't a clue - i'm not a techie - but I know I didn't have the problem before mountain lion and I've been using adobe cs prodcuts since thir inception.

Here is the good news: .....The disappearing cursor problem hasn't occurred for a couple of months for rme, on my Macbook Pro (running 10.8.4) where I have CS6 creative suite installed and seems to have disappeared on my iMAc, wehre I have cs5.5 installed. The imporvement came on my macbook pro (OSX 10.8.4, cs 6) with recent oracle java updates - i now have version 7 update 25 installed - and the change in my imac (system 10.8.4, cs 5.5) when I updated that to version 7 update 25.

Just to let you know, I know there has been extensive writings on java, security, etc...and I have followed every update of Apple's in the sequence of updates they have for "disabling" their java (whatever that means), but I have also been doing the same with Oracle. Under system preferences>Other if you do have Oracle's Java for Mac installed you can find out what version by clicking on the Java icon, waiting what seems a long time until another control panel window opens then, finding your way to the updates segment.

Somehwere in the sequence of events/changes somethng is working for me - the disappearing cursor problem has, well, not reared its ugly head for a while...for me.

cheers

john

I did a Java update several months ago - it might have coincided with the cursor problem going away. I am now running Java Version 7 Update 25

It you read all thread,I 'm the first that talked about Java to solve the problem, but last Java updates by Apple, months ago had return the problem back for me. I didn't try with the last Java version in this days, I will try.

good luck

i hate it when some arbitrary change "works" but (1) no one knows what the problem is in the first place and (2) why the change seems to work in any case?

i still dont trust that the problem has been solved and wish apple/adobe got onto it

i wonder if anyone has the problem who is just using adobe creatice suite apps in the cloud?? I can't (and don't want to) afford to do that

john

I updated to the latest Java from Oracle. However, it changed nothing for me. The cursor is still vanishing.

I know two people who are also having this issue and both are using the Creative Cloud versions of Photoshop, so that isn't a solution either.

At this point, I'm really hoping 10.9 solves this disappearing cursor problem.

If it doesn't, I'm going to have to switch over to a Windows machine for my work.

You could do what I have done: reverted to an optical tehthered mouse. A great relief!

really can't understand your answer, we are talking about a serious problem for our productivity, many about os problem, driver video, java, third part software. ....and you? talk about a tethered mouse..

I use no mouse, wacom tablet tethered and cursor disappears.

Luigi.T

I don't think that you have understood the seriousness of this problem. I have had mouse problems since June 2011 when I got my present iMac. It had Lion, and the mouse problems, and 10 other problems (for one example, the pointer skittered across the screen and scrolled it away so I lost my place). I took it 5 times to the Genius Bar at an Apple Centre but they could find no solution to the mouse problems. I installed Mountain Lion as a clean installation (that is, I erased the internal hard drive, installed the OS and then installed my applications from the original discs (all standard industry-standard ones from Adobe, Microsoft etc.), manually re-entered my email account, Contacts etc. This prevented any corruption being carried over. The mouse problems continued.

This and other threads have documented the widespread problem, also solutions none of which has had any effect for me. Apple surely are aware of it but have decided to ignore it. I have sent them many compaints via their feedback site, as others have done, and this forum is, after all, run by them. I know they monitor it.

I had the choice of struggling to use a faulty machine, or get rid of the Magic Mouse and replace it with an optical tethered mouse. I chose the latter. I still have one bizarre problem: input from the keyboard sometimes gets transferred to Spotlight's input field rather than the document etc. where it is intended to appear. But the computer is usable. You could do the same by ditching your Wacom Tablet.

When I come to upgrading my hardware, I will go to a Windows machine which, although inelegant, seems, from my friends, to work OK.

By all means, all of you, carry on banging your head against a brick wall by fulminating against Apple. It will do no good. I chose another way. I can at least now do work on this rotten piece of junk.

Good luck to all of you, its all youv'e got.

CT, are you ever actually helpful or is this forum just a place for you to act out your displaced aggression. I have yet to see you post a helpful thing here. I can't imagine why you are bothering.

SteveKir,

Luigi was right, your previous post made little sense. If you read through the pages of this thread you will see that many of us having the disappearing cursor issue are professionals who rely on a Wacom tablet for our work. There is no way to switch to a mouse, tethered or otherwise. Also, the tablet drivers are not to blame since there are others here who are not using graphics tablets and are experiencing the same issue.

Your rant at the end of your post was off base and unhelpful to everyone posting on this thread. I'm not sure why you felt the need to end your post that way.