Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Hi ALL,
Where do I find the preferenes.plist file for mouse in Mavericks?
I like to trash it because I have to click my mouse pointer sometimes 3 to 4 times before the pointer gives my any reaction.
Thank you.
Dimaxum
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), iMac G4/1250 MHz-80GB HD-768Mb RAM iBook G3/600MHz 20GB-HD-64
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Preferences/
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
Hi Eric,
Thank you Eric, but I NOW where the preferences folder is.
That was not my question ...
I checked the Preferences folder in my Home directory ... there is NO preferences plist file for mouse ... ore does this has a different name in Mavericks?
I was looking for apple.mouse.plist but no success.
Thank you
Dimaxum
The 2 I've seen are:
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
You can't just trash property list files in Mavericks, since preferences and other settings are cached in memory. Unfortunately, this results in a big increase in delays and beach-balling, since the way they do this seems to cause a lot more memory thrashing than before.
At the very least you will need to use the defaults utility, but I doubt it will do any good, since the delays are coming from the system archiving and unarchiving stuff in the caches.
You may have
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist
and
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
but other settings are in
~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
and
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost.GlobalPreferences.-your ethernet id-.plist
If you restart or logout right after trashing the files, you'll normally avoid the caching. You can also use 'defaults delete' on the files in Terminal, or use Activity Monitor or Terminal to quit (or killall) cfprefsd
Test in a Guest or new user account first, to confirm that it's a per-user problem.
Hi AndyBall,
The problem is that I have to click multiple times with my mouse until web links (on any web page), files I like to open ore just select a file is in delay.
This is very anoing to work with.
That's why I like to trash the mouse.preferences.plist ... But when I read here the comments I doubt that it make any differences.
Is there anything else I can do to activate my mouse and behavior normally?
Dimaxum
>>...But when I read here the comments I doubt that it make any differences...
Sure it will, if the problem is due to a preference file.
Test in a Guest or new user account first, to confirm that it's a per-user problem.
Hu AndyBall,
It tested a gast account and the same issue and delay with the mouse actions.
So, this is system wide.
What file I have to delete ?
Thank you ...
Dimaxum
Does Activity Monitor show excessive memory pressure or CPU use ?.
Does the mouse problem persist in Safe Mode or with a different mouse ?.
Hi,
No there is no memory pressure or CPU problems.
No, it is not possible to to get in SAFE MODE when I try to start up in Save Mode I see a LOCK and asking me a password ... I don't no to get in Save mode without the password.
I treid multple password without success.
Dimaxum
Hi,
I just tested a MS mouse and until now the problem is gone.
Could it be the Apple mouse or still a corrupted preferences plist file?
Dimaxum
If the problem is only with clicking, rather than moving the pointer, then I'd suspect the mouse itself.
Look in HD/Library/Preferences for
com.apple.Bluetooth.plist if it's a wireless mouse.
Hi,
No, it's not a wireless mouse.
USB connected.
Dimaxum
>>No, it is not possible to to get in SAFE MODE when I try to start up in Save Mode I see a LOCK and asking me a password ... I don't no to get in Save mode without the password.
That may be a firmware password : do you have the same problem trying to start in Recovery ?.
If not, do that; then try the Safari available there. If your mouse misbehaves there too, there's almost certainly a hardware fault with it.
Hi,
YES, same problem in Recovery, can acces that.
Dimaxum
Where do I find the preference plist for mouse
