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atthecshore Author

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Shake mouse pointer to locate doesn't work

The new El Capitan feature, "Shake mouse pointer to locate" doesn't work on my Mac.

I've confirmed that it's checked off in the Accessibility control panel, but still no dice.

Anyone else having this problem or know how to fix it?

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013), iOS 8.3, Yosemite 10.10

Posted on Oct 2, 2015 1:01 PM

18 replies

dialabrain

Level 10

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Jul 2, 2016 5:46 AM in response to N3M1C0

You do have to shake it quickly.

N3M1C0

Level 1

31 points

Jul 5, 2016 11:29 AM in response to dialabrain

That I do. I noticed it works for about 5 seconds when booting the system, but then, I can never repeat the action :/

N3M1C0

Level 1

31 points

Jul 6, 2016 10:28 AM in response to N3M1C0

Ok so after I installed the latest Logitech drivers as suggested earlier, I used CleanMyMac to completely uninstall everything related to Logitech.

The computed did not seem to like it as the next reboot was laborious.

Then I went into Verbose Mode, typed the fsck -fy line command to be sure everything on the disk was ok and from this moment, I have managed to keep the Shake to Locate functionality working any time.

Weird but it works 😉

Shake mouse pointer to locate doesn't work