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harperjones99

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Today out of the blue in mid use (no restarts, updates or changes) my 3 and 4 finger gestures stopped working. Google led me to this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2223030&tstart=0

Seems several people had this problem and there are two solutions posted in that thread. The one I tried first, and it worked, was to create a new user account and switch to it. The gestures worked fine in that account so I tried my original account again and all was good. I deleted the new account and things are still back to normal so far. Weird.
 
I noticed this after 10.6.2. It usually stops working after a restart after which I must repair permissions. Sometimes the fix will stay, but sometimes it's only good until the next restart where I have to repair permissions again. I'm probably going to reinstall OS X after exams are don. Since my computer is slowing down in general 🙁
 
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