Three finger swipe no longer works on Mavericks

Hahahaha !

I spend a lot of time in Finder. I use the previous gesture with my left hand even when I use a mouse with my right hand, I just can't work effectively without this feature. My workflow is just ruined.

How could they make such a TERRIBLE mistake ? This is incredibly stupid.

If there's not, at least, a 3rd party app to fix this in the last few days, I'm going to downgrade. 😟

I might have found another bug related to three finger swiping. With Mountain Lion it was possible to switch between months in Calendar (formely iCal) also with either three or two fingers depending on the setting. For me this does not work anymore.

Does this affect you too?

good find.. I don't usually use iCal/Calendar but I remember discovering the swiping between months at some point.

It's broken on my end too. Joy 🙂

hi-i\'m-jan wrote:

I might have found another bug related to three finger swiping. With Mountain Lion it was possible to switch between months in Calendar (formely iCal) also with either three or two fingers depending on the setting. For me this does not work anymore.

Does this affect you too?

Are you trying to swipe side to side or scroll up and down? It appears to be different because days logically run side to side and months need to be up and down to be contiguous.

And hopefully it's pertinent to the new joiners to this thread, please report this to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I was trying to swipe side to side to switch between months, since it was this way in Mountain Lion. They even had the effect of turning pages.

But you are right. I have to swipe up and down and this works perfectly for me. Thanks a lot :-)

swiping up and down doesn't work for me in Calendar..

I have ran into the issue that as soon as I try to do the 3 finger swipe and I have Safari open, the computer freezes with Mavericks. I just disabled the 3 finger swipe in hopes of making the freezing to stop.

@Laralyn10

The magic only happens if you use two fingers. Then you can swipe up and down in month view or swipe left and right in day view and week view. In month view it's just like regular scrolling (as for example in Safari)

The freezes continue even after disabling the 3 finger swipe... 😟

Time to go to apple to format my computer and remove Mavericks.

OH.. you mean scrolling then? it doesn't really jump up/down one month, just scrolls. It's neat though.

hi-i\'m-jan wrote:

@Laralyn10

The magic only happens if you use two fingers. Then you can swipe up and down in month view or swipe left and right in day view and week view. In month view it's just like regular scrolling (as for example in Safari)

Timbuktu wrote:

I have a possible fix for the 2 finger scroll; I had a similar issue not being able to scroll at all in the Finder with both Trackpad and Mouse wheel. I used TinkerTool and Onyx to tweak some hidden OS settings (enabled Quit in Finder amongst others) and undoing the tweaks fixed my scrolling issues.

So I am wondering if anyone else used 3rd party Finder tweaking that now possibly interferes with Maverick's Finder?

Titanium's Onyx has now been updated for Mac OS X 10.9 but I have not been able to find a tweak that restores the Finder swipe.

The Calendar issue is a separate one whereby the horizontal swipe for movement between months has been replaced with a two-fingered vertical swipe which (as hi-i\'m-jan says) is more scroll-like than page-turning. As such, this is not a loss of function merely a change in the flow of things.

For clarity's sake the OP's issue is the loss of a three-fingered horizontal swipe for navigating backwards and forwards through the folder system in Finder.

Feedback to persuade Apple to hopefully address this issue should be directed to:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I too have this problem... Come on Apple get your act together please and fix this.

I have the same problem, I CAN'T go back and forth using 3 finger swipe between folders in the finder window. This is really annoying and adds so much time to my workflow. Time is money and this defintely is taking money out of my pocket. It sounds like many people are experiencing this too. Hopefully Apple fixes this bug.

APPLE, PLEASE FIX THREE FINGER SWIPE FUNCTIONALITY IN THE FINDER WINDOW!!!

IT WORKED PERFECTLY IN SNOW LEOPARD, LION, AND MOUTAIN LION.

I CANT SWIPE BACK AND FORTH IN THE NEW FINDER WINDOW EITHER. IT'S INCREDIBLY ANNOYING TO HAVE TO CLICK ON THE LITTLE BACK AND FORTH ARROWS AT THE TOP LEFT OF THE FINDER WINDOW AND NOT TO MENTION REALLY TIME CONSUMING WHEN YOU HAVE MANY FILES AND FOLDERS. PLEASE FIX THIS BUG ISSUE APPLE, PLEASE. IT WAS A REALLY GREAT TIME SAVING AND EFFICIENT FEATURE. THANKS APPLE.