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User profile for user: tal1971
tal1971 Author
User level: Level 2
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Three finger swipe no longer works on Mavericks

I have just updated to Mavericks.



Prior to installing Mavericks, I was able to do a 3 finger swipe left or right to go back or forward in a Finder window.



After I have installed Mavericks, I can no longer do this. I have checked in System Preferences/Trackpad and the settings are exactly as they were before I updated to Mavericks.



I was wondering if anyone else has run into this issue and if so have you found of solving it.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), iMac 27in Late 2012 Fusion Drive

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 9:58 AM

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User profile for user: lazmad2001
lazmad2001
User level: Level 1
0 points

May 13, 2014 5:28 AM in response to CedyCedz

wrong!!! I've just entered this forum because I was having the same issue... could'nt find the answer to fix the 3 swipe finger thing for FINDER... got it all right now...


NO NEED TO INSTALL ****, JUST DO THIS, WORKS LIKE A CHARM


Steps:


1) open system preferencess

2) Trackpad

3) More Gestures

4) Swipe between pages: just select SWIPE WITH THREE FINGERS...


after that I got everything working again: FINDER AND SAFARI... worked perfectly !!! no is back to what it used to be...


Enjoy

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User profile for user: tal1971
tal1971 Author
User level: Level 2
302 points

May 13, 2014 8:19 AM in response to lazmad2001

lazmad2001 wrote:


wrong!!! I've just entered this forum because I was having the same issue... could'nt find the answer to fix the 3 swipe finger thing for FINDER... got it all right now...


NO NEED TO INSTALL ****, JUST DO THIS, WORKS LIKE A CHARM


Steps:


1) open system preferencess

2) Trackpad

3) More Gestures

4) Swipe between pages: just select SWIPE WITH THREE FINGERS...


after that I got everything working again: FINDER AND SAFARI... worked perfectly !!! no is back to what it used to be...


Enjoy


It doesnt work for me.


I got the three finger swipe working a long time ago by using Better Touch Tool. If people have a problem with the three finger swipe not working with Mavericks, then this is the solution until such time that Apple decide to bring that feature back.

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User profile for user: hipdeejay
hipdeejay
User level: Level 1
12 points

May 17, 2014 3:32 PM in response to lazmad2001

Are you on Mavericks? Because swiping does not work in FInder no matter what you do or what settings you change. It always worked in Safari, that was never the problem.


If everyone doesn't complain about this it will never get fixed. http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

It takes 2 minutes


I can also confirm that swiping in Finder still does not work on the latest OS X update. I keep hoping they'll fix it but they never have.


Using some crappy third party software just to swipe in Finder is a non-solution. It's not the same at all.

I still believe this is a bug because swiping works everywhere else in OS X like Safari, App Store, iTunes, etc. Finder is the ONLY place it does not work. And it's not like Apple to have features that don't work universally across all their software. Especially considering it worked before and now it still works everywhere else except the one place it's needed most.


Also swiping doesn't work for the magic mouse as well as the trackpad. Really hoping Apple fixes this soon it's extremely annoying and time consuming

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Three finger swipe no longer works on Mavericks

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