I've just installed El Capitan and the new "feature" of swiping to delete/archive in Mail really annoys me. It doesn't go very well with the Apple mouse. I'd like to disable it. How can I do that? I guess there's some kind of Terminal command to do it.
And please don't answer that the feature is actually good and that I just don't understand it. That was not my question. 🙂
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
I have now temporarily solved this problem by installing MagicPrefs, which gives me the ability to turn off one-finger scrolling and replace it with two-finger scrolling, meaning that scrolling from now on requires two fingers on the mouse.
Any accidental scrolling of the kind I mentioned, or in any other app, is blocked. With this solution, I'm spared all the frustration and time lost on trying to get back to where I was in InDesign and similar after being totally swept away just because my finger slid a fraction of a millimeter over the mouse surface.
The downside is that inertial scrolling is also disabled, but the more I work without it, the more I realise that it's kind of nice to have a bit more control of the way things scroll. Inertial scrolling gives you an impression of swiftness, but to be honest, it also makes it a bit difficult to control exactly where to end up after scrolling.
I'll keep using MagicPrefs until Apple adds the same functionality to their own mouse preference pane. And yes, I have asked them to implement it. But knowing Apple, I'd say that it'll take a decade or so if it happens at all.
It is a very annoying feature...biggest mistake I made was upgrading to El Capitan and the resulting Apple Mail issues. Thanks for the tip.
Thank you for this tip!
Apple - the swipe to trash in Mail is very bloody annoying - at least have a setting to turn it off.....
"Bloody annoying" couldn't have put it better
Agreed - i hate this feature because i've become very close multiple times to accidentally removing an email that i want to keep. Swiping is best for touch-screens - not mice.
Yes, this annoys the **** out of me too, although otherwise I'm a big fan of the Apple mouse.
And it really gives me the ***** when Apple replaces h e l l with ****. Just thought I'd mention that.
Another great little application to use in this case is Better Touch Tool if you want to adjust the swipes to suit your needs.
Leo
I installed BetterTouchTool and created Mail-specific gestures for MM. I set both "Swipe Left" and "Swipe Right" with one finger to "Do Nothing." It did not override the existing gestures in El Cap. So unless you've gotten BTT to handle this scenario and can give us steps to reproduce your success, this is not a solution to the issue.
I don't recommend installing third-party extensions or apps meant to override basic functions of your operating system. That's a good way for things to go wrong in a hurry.
Why they want to make a Mac act like an iPad is beyond me. It's not like Apple has a touch screen laptop or that the iPad Pro is running El Capitan. Bad design decision that was not thought through (or was this a hint on what the next generation products are). :-)
Hope they put a switch to turn it off (it ain't that hard).
Magic Prefs seem to be able to turn this off if you set the scrolling zone on the mouse under Preferences > Configure Scrolling, however this is a global change which makes other apps harder to use.
The default behavior in Mail is terrible for Magic Mouse users. Let's hope someone posts a Terminal command to disable this.
Mail.app seems to be getting steadily worse over time...
Just discovered that if you open an email by clicking in the middle of the highlighted line instead of the left end the email will open without all the wiggling and the 'swipe to trash' showing up.
Using MagicPrefs to disable one-finger scrolling system-wide is not the ideal solution as it's actually useful in other applications.
The Mail.app is close to useless when using the Magic Mouse. The slide function in Mail is hysterically hypersensitive and you can't touch any part of the top surface of the mouse without Mail going into slide-frency-mode. This needs to be addressed ASAP.
Just to add my two cents. The swipe feature is useless when using the magic mouse. It's far too sensitive to be useful.
Disable swipe to delete/archive in El Capitan Mail?
