Trackpad click not working at login

When logging in with the trackpad you need to give it a "hard click", actually depressing the pad until you hear the click.

I believe the tap to click preference has not been loaded yet until you actually login. At least that is how mine has worked for the year + that I have had it. Snow Leopard, Lion and now Moutain Lion.

The trackpad does have a hard click. The feet on the bottom will depress when you put pressure on the pad, which creates the click.

Just FYI. That is how it works when "tap to click" is disabled, and how it works when the preference is not yet loaded.

edisc wrote:

It's a magic trackpad so there is no physical click. I actually figured out the issue is that the magic trackpad has tap to click disabled by default. Found a terminal command here to enable by default and now it works perfectly.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1218257

Looks like that link tells you how to make the change the default so the preference does not have to load. Which is fine also. But you do not have to do that (change your system). Just hard click to login.

This is explained in that thread also. Same thing I posted above.

I can’t imagine not to be able to use your MBP because of this very frustrating glitch. It's happened to me a number of times and had to borrow my sons usb w/l mouse in order to login. But I think that I may have just figured out a way. What seems to work is to place the pointer on the users icon, depress the middle of the trackpad with either left index or middle finger while keeping constant pressure and tapping lower right hand corner. It may take a few tries but it's worked on my 2012 MBP 10.10.5--- I may have to make a video to post later.

Oh my god! This worked! I was so frustrated and on the verge of burying my 2009 macbook and kissing it goodbye, but this little trick got me in. Thank you!