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How do I fix the scroll direction in Mavericks?

I just upgraded from 10.6.8 to Mavericks. Everything is bass-ackwards. When I scroll I expect to move the scroll bar, not the whole page. Whose bright idea was this. How do I fix it so my computer works like it has for 10 years?

Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 300 GB, 250 GB, 160 GB firewire external HDs

Posted on Jan 12, 2014 4:43 PM

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Jan 15, 2014 12:27 PM in response to Tracy Reynolds

Tracy Reynolds wrote:


So it's normal to take a perfectly set up and functioning computer, upgrade the OS and have to tick this box and tick that box and whatever to restore the functions you had before the upgrade?

If that did not happen, then there would be quite a few 1984 Mac features that still worked exactly the same in 2014, even if doing so is compelely inappropriate in 2014. We don't want that.


Things gotta change, the only questions are, did they change at the right time, and for a good reason. Given the evolution in pointing devices over the past 30 years, I say Apple has changed the scroll direction for reasons that are relatively easy to justify.

How do I fix the scroll direction in Mavericks?

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