Three finger swipe no longer works on Mavericks

hi-i\'m-jan wrote:

These symbols represent keys on your keyboard. For example if you press ⌘ and [ simultaneously in Finder you can go back. These so called shortcuts are built in by Apple and they do the exact same thing as the back and forward buttons I mentioned above

Since you are a new Mac user I want to add that ⌘ is the Command key which you can find next to the space bar.

Well, although I'm a new Mac user Certain general things are not that unknown to me 😁😁😁, and I'm well aware of the cmd key location and the overall configuration of Mac keyboard 😉 The problem however was that copy/paste didn't project authentically the symbols to BBT required field and that I somehow was missing a point. So, now all work. But, have to tell it's not so comfortable and flexible to respond to my gestures (I have to invest some labor to get accustomed) as it has some moment of delay when swiping contrary to default trackpad settings of Mavericks lacking 3 fingers swipe. And I think, what if Apple intentionally got rid of it, taking into account that those who are likely to take advantage of this invredibly popular BBT will use it anyway. From what I learned its developer is feeling some grief towards Apple strategy to bind strictly developers to some restricted security code and thus eliminating a multitude of apps, that helped a great deal to users. Of course it will be nice if they fix this bug (in the case they consider it a such), however if they don't, well.....

http://blog.boastr.net/sandboxing-in-the-mac-app-store/

Me too 😉

I agree with most of you.

Swipe in finder is no longer available but it works on safari.

I hope Apple provides us a solution ASAP

that was a very useful tool

FWIW, I can't use the three-finger swipe gesture (aka "Swipe between full-screen apps") after upgrading to Mavericks, but I do have one more thing to add to this thread: I use a multi-display setup and the three-finger swipe works just fine when the pointer is on my external display -- it just doesn't work when the pointer is on my laptop (Macbook Pro 17" early 2011). That seems odd. All other gestures work fine on both displays.

Hmm. For me, the Finder swipe navigation doesn't work on either the laptop or the connected Thunderbolt display.

I'm also very confused about the swipe behaviour.. it feels just inconsistent. I'm coming from 10.6 and miss the "original spaces" - I had a column of 5 spaces. Finder was applied to the third, so this was my "main space". With 3 Finger Swipe up / down I navigated through these. 4 Finger Swipe right / left was always in every program with tabs my tabswitcher (with BTT).

As you all know Mavericks well enough now you see this old workflow bites with the new behaviour. On top of that I experience a bug or so that I can't drag with double tap... So I HAVE TO use the option "drag with 3 fingers". Nevermind I kind of like it, and still there are many situations double tap to drag is more precise..

I thought installing TotalSpaces2 would solve my problems .. but it's just not as smooth as the good old mac spaces or the 4 finger swipe for the new spaces now.. So I have to wait until the animation is over + a lil amount of miliseconds to proceed the next swipe action-

And guys, I can tell you-

I swipe a loooooot..

Is there any way that switching tabs (my old 4 Finger swipe) can be done with 3 fingers but still saving the 3 finger drag? Slowly starting to drag and swiping fast are 2 different things, aren't they? Could mavericks notice that?

Or is there any way to perform the mavericks internal space switch with 4 finger swipe up / down? Because like I said.. with BTT I have to wait until animation is finished to swipe to the next space- .. 4 spaces.. from 1 to 4 takes quite some time and patience.. patience I don't have and need with my new 15'' MBPr :>

Love to hear your opinions.

(any ideas about the bug with no double tap?)

(any hope mavericks soon brings 2 finger swipe back / forward navigation to Finder? Get kind of used to it from Safari..)

Thanks for this great app ! I looked for an app of this kind during two days...

And finally I've switched back to mavericks...

Any news on this? This is easily the most annoying thing about Mavericks.

Why would they remove something that was so useful? Not only that but only partially remove it, where it's needed most. This just makes Apple look really bad. Swiping still works fine in Safari, Firefox, etc. But doesn't work in Finder. Tabs is no replacement whatsoever.

I really hope they bring this back. Also Preview doesn't work right either since upgrading (downgrading) to Mavericks. Some pictures and movies just won't load at all and just give me the error message "an error occurred with the preview of this document". It's just not the same without Steve 😟

No news…

Better touch tool works as a workaround. tal1971 describes how to do it (see above). Attention: You have to adjust the keyboard-shortcuts according to your language-version (for the german version for example ⌘Ö ⌘Ä instead ⌘[ ⌘] for Back or Forward-Shortcuts in Finder)

But a bug is a bug is a bug… Apple shall fix this… The workaround with BTT is only second choice. After all, for a gesture feature that should just work out of the box. Or do anyone know a way how to assign shortcuts in Finder to gestures, without having to use BTT?

Just annoying...

So: please report this Bug to Apple. I'sannoying that Apple has removed this feature...

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

This and other bugs are actually the reason why still all Macs running in my company with 10.8.5 ...

As a work-around, you might try the keyboard shortcuts "Command-[" and "Command ]" to more back and forth within Finder windows.

My solution:

1) Download MagicPrefs (http://vladalexa.com/apps/osx/magicprefs/)

2) Go to Prefereces>Swipes

3) "two fingers swipe left" add Keyboard actions "alt+cmd+["

4) "two fingers swipe right" add Keyboard actions "alt+cmd+]"

And now swipe between pages work also on finder. 🙂

will apple EVER fix this issue?

yes, bettertouchtool has fixed the issue and i want to thank everyone for pointing this out.

but its absurd that apple can't fix something so simple. do they not even read these posts?

i can't imagine this being so HARD to fix.

xpand3r wrote:

... do they not even read these posts?

No.

John Galt wrote:

xpand3r wrote:

... do they not even read these posts?

No.

Actually they do.

However, multiple updates in short intervals looks bad. They prefer it if customers only have to update on few occasions. So they collect several issues and push fixes out together as one package.

I like to think that they have already patched this but still wait for other stuff that needs to be done.

I hope that someday Apple realizes that this is a stupid move and that they achieve the opposite of what they aim at. This policy does not make customers happy. It makes them overthink their next hardware purchase more carefully.

You can criticise Microsoft for lots of stuff. But they acknowledge bugs and their updates come fast.