Hi Rosemary, What are his settings in System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse and Trackpad? You can set the speed of the double click to be much slower.
Kind Regards, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 13 Jun 2020, at 12:07 pm, Rosemary Spark <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Ronni, > I tried your suggestion but the problem remains. He can't open any file > anywhere (in our outside a program) with a mouse or The only way to open is > to use keyboard shortcuts or File>>Open or in the case of Calendar > Edit>>Event. > It is in the weird category. Not impossible of course, just very annoying for > him. > Cheers > Rosemary Spark > PO Box 781 > South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia > Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 > Mobile: 0414268043 > > > > >> On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 13:56, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> Open Disk Utility (Applications / Utilities) on your Mac. >> Select your disk from the left menu and then click First Aid and then click >> Run. >> This will fix volume errors. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Ronni >> >> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >> >> >>>> On 1 May 2020, at 11:56 am, Rosemary Spark <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>> >>> My husband is still running Mojave 10.4.6 on his Macbook 13inn Early 2013 >>> model. >>> A really weird problem has arisen. He can't open any file or folder in any >>> programme (Mac or otherwise) with his mouse or trackpad without going to >>> File>>Open or in Calendar>> Edit Event). >>> He's re-started his machine; installed a new mouse, but he (and I ) are >>> out of ideas at this point because it's such a strange problem. >>> >>> Rosemary Spark >>> PO Box 781 >>> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >>> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >>> Mobile: 0414268043 >>> >>> >>> -- 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>
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