New Os X Mavericks and trackpad problem

I agree - this is a fundamental problem. In my case, none of the finger gestures work on my MacBook Pro (late 2010) with the latest Mavericka and I have tried all the suggestions on many forums. We should not be having to fix - Apple should. And fast.

Did you restore user accounts after the clean install? If so that breaks it again. You need new accounts. Having had this happen daily since Mavericks came out, it's not done it in a month now.

No, I didn't restore anything from my previous install. I recreate everything from the beginning.

I reset the NVRAM/PRAM too. (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379)

The clean install worked something like... 45min for me ;(

Using my laptop with a mouse is not an option for me...

We shouldn't have to be doing clean installs. Upgrades should work and, if not, should be fixed by Apple.

Agreed - recent Apple OSX updates haven't been the best.

My MacBook (late 2008, aluminum unibody - the grand father to the current design) was all fine for 5 years until I installed Maverics. Now when scrolling with 2 fingers (e.g. in Safari) the page starts to zoom-jump. Just leaving two fingers on the trackpad without moving them at all (as still as one can be) the screen will start to zoom-jump after few seconds. It is so annoying!

I really have hard time to percieve any positive change with this OSX version (slow WLAN location, slow USB device removal).

Apple, please, fix this! And pronto!

Mine had the Drag Option disabled for the Trackpad and after marking it again works perfectly.

Thanks BritinUSA for sharing with us the solution you found.

same on macpro early 2011. track pad going nuts. read somewhere you can close the lid/screen and wait for the comp to go to sleep )pulsing light) then reopen. It works but unfortunately temporarily then issue comes back. mouse is better but also starts to do the mexican jumping bean trick. c'mon apple and update to fix this please.

me bought the macbook air 11 (mid 2012) yesterday on second market. It was unused for 3 months before I turn it on. I've updated the Mavericks to ver 10.9.4 and then the trackpad problem appears. Sometimes cursor loose control and jump over the screen, randomly generating two touch swipes. I tried to update os to yosemite (not a clean install) but the bug is still there. Will try to downgrade to mountain lion today and check if battery looks ok and not push on trackpad from inside.

First of all I will try to load from external disk with clean Mountain Lion. Will report if it helps

Uh..no hope to fix the trackpad madness. Definitely not a software problem in my case. It appears even while clean OS installation in progress. Tried to deassemble the macbook and clean the trackpad from dust. It seems the bug appears when the macbook is getting hot having heavy CPU tasks. The last chance to fix the problem is to replace the trackpad 😟

I had a crazy mouse on my mac book pro. was killing me. I just tried a safe boot and the problem did not occur. I rebooted again in "regular" mode problem was no longer there. Don't know what software might be causing the problem but I'm grateful this showed signs of the problem going away. Good luck.

this worked for me...Thanks so much!!!!!

don't know if getting a new trackpad is the answer. i just had my trackpad replaced as it was diagnosed by Apple as being a hardware issue so they replaced my trackpad. got it home and 2 hours later i had the same issue.

just letting my MBPro [late 2011] sit for a few minutes and it goes away, but what a PITA. Clean install is next, but while using my backup MBPro [2009] with a clean install, started experiencing a similar issue after waking from sleep.