Since upgrading to 10.8, my mouse scroll wheel works in reverse. When I rotate the wheel towards me, the page scrolls up. Can this be configured or fixed? It is not an apple mouse.

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Since upgrading to 10.8, my mouse scroll wheel works in reverse. When I rotate the wheel towards me, the page scrolls up. Can this be configured or fixed? It is not an apple mouse.

Have been happily using a Microsoft optical wheel mouse with my 27" iMac for a year or so. Just upgraded the OS to 10.8.4.

Now, when I rotate the scroll wheel towards myself, instead of scrolling down the page, it scrolls up. Microsoft doesn't yet have a driver for

anything past 10.7. Can this be configured somehow to act as it used to?

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jul 23, 2013 2:58 PM

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VikingOSX

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Jul 23, 2013 3:06 PM in response to Mapache1

System Preferences > Mouse > Point & Click. Enable Scroll direction: natural. See if that MSFT mouse understands that setting.

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Jul 23, 2013 5:50 PM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks, Viking.

Unfortunately Enable Scroll Direction does not appear. Perhaps when Microsoft release a 10.8 driver....

They promise they will have one "soon".

In the meantime, I'll try patience and tolerance.

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Barney-15E

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Jul 23, 2013 7:47 PM in response to Mapache1

If it isn't showing up in the Mouse or Trackpad preferences, take a look at these websites: command line scroll direction

They were for Lion, but may still work.

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Jul 24, 2013 7:36 AM in response to Barney-15E

Thank you, Barney. I'll give it a try.

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Jul 24, 2013 7:50 AM in response to Mapache1

Many thanks! I clicked the link Barney-15E provided, and found this page:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3192577?start=15&tstart=0

There were a number of good suggestions there, including this one:

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Re: Mouse/Trackpad Scroll Options Not Independent

Aug 24, 2011 11:31 PM (in response to erik.l)

There is a free app out there that fixes this. I tried it and it does what we want.

http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

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It took about 2 seconds to download the app, install it, and be back to normal mouse wheel behavior.

I'm grateful for the help.

http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

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