The problem, as it turns out, may simply be due to interference with
the wireless mice from either my iPhone or our home wi-fi network. I
usually have the iPhone (6S+) close by, and our Spectrum cable monitor
(Ubee) is close by the computer as well. I plugged in a generic "made
in China" wired USB optical mouse, and the problems went away,
although I was certain I had experienced the same issues with it
earlier as with the wireless mice. Also, the wireless mice worked fine
until just recently, when it developed issues all at once across a
broad range of applications and games. I live in an apartment complex,
and my iPhone indicates the presence of several home wi-fi networks
among the neighbors, so perhaps the interference is coming from one or
more of them.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll file them for future reference. I did
try deleting the mouse prefs plist earlier while working the problem,
but that did not resolve the issues with the wireless mice.
Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX
On Aug 3, 2017, at 10:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Aug 3, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Michael McMurtrey
<[email protected]> wrote:
All of a sudden my mouse refuses to work properly. I can't click
and drag text in Word (or any other application); sometimes the
mouse initially selects nothing but then highlights a completely
different block of text when I attempt to drag. If I am successful
in selecting a block of text, the block is deselected once I
release the mouse button I can't create a rectangular marquee in
Photoshop. I can't resize browser windows. When I try to move a
Finder window by clicking and dragging, the window closes. I can't
resize columns in column view in the Finder. These issues (and
others) persist whether I'm using a wired mouse or a wireless one
(Logitech or Microsoft).
Computer is a dual-processor MDD running OS 10.5.8. I have run Disk
First Aid and even reinstalled the OS, all to no avail.
Have you tried making changes to your mouse prefs and then changing
them back? Sometimes that fixes weird issues.
Make sure no weird things have been turned on in Accessibility
prefs, this can cause issues like this.
Create another account and see if you have the same problem.
If not (and I suspect so, since you did the equivalent of checking
the air in your tires and rebuilding your engine because the window
in your car won’t roll up 8-) find the mouse prefs plist files in
your user ~/Library folder (I don’t remember where it is in 10.5.8)
and delete it.
In 10.12 it's in ~/Library/.GlobalPreferences.plist (note the
leading dot, meaning it’s a hidden file. ) You can open a terminal
window and do rm Library/Prefereneces/.GlobalPreferences.plist , log
off and log back in and see if your mouse behaves.
This will wipe out a lot of preferences, though.
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