Also have a play with - System Preferences - Accessibility. Click onto Mouse & Trackpad. Click on "Trackpad Options…". You'll see a setting there "Scrolling with inertia". Untick that and try it as well. If it's not ticked, it won't "scroll as fast". - which is a bit of the "older way". Some people find it better without it ticked on, and more easy to navigate.
This "work around" may help as well - <http://osxdaily.com/2011/12/09/no-scrollbar-arrows-mac-os-x-lion-workaround/> Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** On 11/06/2013, at 6:22 PM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Ronni, > Thanks for the reply. > > My System Preference is set for 'always' for the scrolll bars. It is not the > scroll bar that is absent, but the pair of little pointer icons, 1 up and 1 > down that we used to have, either both on one end of the scroll bar track or > one at the top and one at the bottom. I don't know their proper name. > > I often have the task of navigating around a very large image in zoomed-in > mode, and also very large pdf files. Dragging or clicking the scroll bar > causes huge jumps, with no quick and easy way to get back to your starting > point. > > Another thought: are there any 3rd-party hacks that can add the little > pointers? > > Scrolling through windows has another nasty little habit: when you search for > an item and get a whole windowful, then clicking on something that looks > promising but turns out to be the wrong thing, then the whole window and all > its icons resets itself to the very top. So you have to navigate again > through all the items to find where you left off. Again, maybe slightly > trivial, but irritating and time-wasting. > > Cheers, > Pat > > On 11/06/2013, at 2:23 PM, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Pat, >> >> OS X Mavericks (10.9) >> <http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/> >> =================== >> Configuring OS X Lion / Mountain Lion Scroll Bars >> >> You don't have to live with Lion / Mountain Lion's scroll bar defaults; you >> can change them to meet your needs or preferences. >> >> • Launch System Preferences. >> >> • Once the System Preferences window opens, select the General >> preference pane. >> >> • The middle section of the General preference pane controls when >> scroll bars appear and a few additional scroll bar options. >> >> • To return the scroll bars to their pre-Lion functionality, select >> "Always" from the Show Scroll Bars options. >> The scroll bars will now always be visible, even when you're not scrolling. >> >> You can quit System Preferences, and no longer have to worry about just >> where you are when you're browsing a document. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >> >> >> On 11/06/2013, at 1:43 PM, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I hope, most fervently, that Apple has returned the scrolling pointers to >>> the scroll bar. Their absence makes so many tasks frustrating, irritating, >>> annoying and time-wasting. I have made a vow to myself not to buy any new >>> OS that does not have them. >>> >>> They are seemingly small things, but their value is immense. >>> >>> Please, Apple………..? >>> >>> Pat >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
