We've already offered those. It's a hardware problem. Take it to Apple.if anyone does have some constructive tips, that would be great.
We've already offered those. It's a hardware problem. Take it to Apple.if anyone does have some constructive tips, that would be great.
Maybe if the trackpad is stuck 'down' the software prevents other instances of a mouse from clicking too.
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It sounds to me like your trackpad is essentially permanently down (where you said that the menubar was highlighted and you couldn't click to deselect it). That can happen when a battery swells up, as some do toward the end of their life or because of a catastrophic failure. Try removing the battery and see if the problem goes away.
Either way, it's probably worth a trip to an Apple store after that.
jW
You probably have a swollen battery.
it's definately not the battery swell problem (i had that problem before, and just recently bought a new one which is totally fine).
wow, lots of paranoia floating round these here parts...its a white macbook running osx version 10.4.11, not 10.3 as was previously stated
wow, lots of paranoia floating round these here parts.
its a white macbook running osx version 10.4.11, not 10.3 as was previously stated (i was going off the top of my head, as i wasn't near the computer itself and don't revise these things.)
if anyone does have some constructive tips, that would be great. it's definately not the battery swell problem (i had that problem before, and just recently bought a new one which is totally fine). the mouse physically clicks fine, but thats about it.
wow, lots of paranoia floating round these here parts.
its a white macbook running osx version 10.4.11, not 10.3 as was previously stated (i was going off the top of my head, as i wasn't near the computer itself and don't revise these things.)
if anyone does have some constructive tips, that would be great. it's definately not the battery swell problem (i had that problem before, and just recently bought a new one which is totally fine). the mouse physically clicks fine, but thats about it.
I've had this happen to me several times. Every time it was one of the three mice connected to my MBP (Magic Mouse, Track Pad, or USB mouse) was being pressed by another object that I wasn't paying attention too. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
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Good Luck.
Googled around and found this post. It turn out that my wife had a Magic Trackpad on and paired with the Mac *at the upper floor*, but closer than 10 meters; and somebody put a blanket on the trackpad clicking it permanently down. Removing the blanket solved the problem :->
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Thanks :->
This post saved my day. My wife Mac Book Air had a strange behaviour: on startup, it would not get clicks from the trackpad, but movements where ok. OK, i thought, hardware problem, the Mac was recently services for problems on the trackpad. So, i connect an Apple Mouse. No way, no clicks. Put it to sleep and wake up, clicks work again, but randomly stop working. OK then: a software problem: i reboot to the recovery partition to do usual disk maintenance to start with, and *no clicks*. O dear, hardware problem then ? But which one ?
Googled around and found this post. It turn out that my wife had a Magic Trackpad on and paired with the Mac *at the upper floor*, but closer than 10 meters; and somebody put a blanket on the trackpad clicking it permanently down. Removing the blanket solved the problem :->
Thanks pal,
Maurizio
Had a cleaning cloth and note pad sitting on top of a Magic Mouse in one of the rooms of our house!
Hi all,
I have what I think is a virus on my macbook. Simply, I can't click on anything. The keyboard works, the trackpad works, but it won't allow me to click anything.