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Mighty Mouse Button Settings Reset Often in Leopard

Going to throw my name into - I have the problem as well. Happens after WoW and after about a day or so of it not resetting. Such a pain - hopefully they will address the issue
 
OMG .... I kept blaming my fiance for messing with my settings. God I cant tell her I am wrong ... ill be done for!

Did some testing and it deffinitey is the Time Machine deltion that does it. Weird but it is. I tried on my iMac, MacBook Pro and our demo machine we have setup with Time Machine here in the store.

Kevin :apple:
 
Hugo-za said:
Ok so since it is apparent that this is not an isolated issue, what is the next step? Has some one brought this to Apple's attention yet?
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According to several posts on the WoW forums, the Blizzard staff have many times. But there has never been any resolution from Apple :(
 
re: Apple Feedback form

Good idea Farscape -- I just followed the link and submitted a form as you suggested :) In addition, I included a link to this thread so maybe they'll check it out too...hopefully, this will get resolved sooner rather than later!
 
Bug Report

I've got an ADC Login, so I submitted an actual bug report to apple on this issue (that will get looked at a lot quicker than feedback). Hope this helps as I've been experiencing the same problems.
 
I too submitted an Apple bug report on this behavior as it happens to me using a Microsoft mouse and Time Machine. I do not have or play WoW.

Simply going into the Time Machine interface and deleting a backups or all backups of a file result in the Expose mouse shortcuts being reset.

Restoring a file doesn't seem to be affected.

Hopefully 10.5.3 addresses this issue.

-Kevin
 
Just an update, this is a known issue in Apple Engineering. We'll have to see if 10.5.3 fixes it.

-Kevin
 
Is my problem similar? It doesn't happen to my Exposé mouse buttons, but my Spaces button gets forgotten. I use a Logitech MX518 with no 3rd-party drivers. Spaces is assigned to button 4 in the Exposé & Spaces prefpane.

There's a short thread on Apple Discussions, but so far no real resolution.
 
I miss my mouse button settings

Here's a possible new twist:

I have an iMac running Mac OS X 10.4.11 with a Mighty Mouse.
I have used button 4 for Expose - Desktop for a couple years, and only in the last few months, I have found that the settings mysteriously disappear over and over again. Scrolling preferences reset as well.

I have no experience with WoW or Time machine.

My theory is that something changed in the last updates of both Tiger and Leopard, which I hope will be rectified soon. :eek:
 
10.5.3 seems to have fixed this issue for me. Deleting a file through the TM interface, no longer resets the Expose shortcuts.

-Kevin
 
This is occuring for me since installing WoW, happens after wow has been played. This is with 10.5.4.

I'm going to fiddle with an AppleScript, see if I can use it to launch wow, then after wow ends, set the mouse prefs back to normal. If it works I'll post it here.
 
bed said:
This is occuring for me since installing WoW, happens after wow has been played. This is with 10.5.4.

I'm going to fiddle with an AppleScript, see if I can use it to launch wow, then after wow ends, set the mouse prefs back to normal. If it works I'll post it here.
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Very nice! Keep us posted on your progress! :)

By the way, could you check in Console, whether there are any crash reports from the Dock when Exposé loses its setting?
 
It doesn't seem to always occur after playing wow, just sometimes.

Regardless, got the apple script working - so you really don't need to worry about it.

This saves quite a few mouse clicks if it does occur:

To change what the button prefs are set to, change the "menu item" number.

-- run WoW
tell application "World of Warcraft"
activate
end tell

-- wait for Wow to finish
tell application "System Events"
repeat while (exists process "World of Warcraft")
end repeat
end tell

--Set scroll button to "Dashboard" from "Button 3"
-- and side buttons to "Expose - Desktop" from "Button 4"
tell application "System Preferences" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
click button 12 of scroll area 1 of window "System Preferences"
click radio button 3 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click menu item 8 of menu 1 of pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click radio button 3 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click pop up button 4 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click menu item 3 of menu 1 of pop up button 4 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit
 
bed said:
It doesn't seem to always occur after playing wow, just sometimes.

Regardless, got the apple script working - so you really don't need to worry about it.

This saves quite a few mouse clicks if it does occur:

To change what the button prefs are set to, change the "menu item" number.

-- run WoW
tell application "World of Warcraft"
activate
end tell

-- wait for Wow to finish
tell application "System Events"
repeat while (exists process "World of Warcraft")
end repeat
end tell

--Set scroll button to "Dashboard" from "Button 3"
-- and side buttons to "Expose - Desktop" from "Button 4"
tell application "System Preferences" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
click button 12 of scroll area 1 of window "System Preferences"
click radio button 3 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click menu item 8 of menu 1 of pop up button 1 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click radio button 3 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click pop up button 4 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click menu item 3 of menu 1 of pop up button 4 of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit
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Thanks!

The reason I asked about the Dock crashing is because every time my Dock crashes, I lose the Spaces mouse bindings.
 
Usb Overdrive X

I got the same problem with my mmouse (3rd & 4th buttons expose etc..)
I solved it disabling the mouse preferences in USB Overdrive X, wich i use to set up my joystick with custom keys.
SO check out your usb device drivers, if you use them.
 
Is it the weekly scripts?

This happens to my mouse every week. I wake up every Monday to find the mouse buttons reset. I started to suspect that the weekly UNIX scripts were resetting the mouse, so I ran the weekly script. Sure enough, it resets the mouse.
 
Resolved!

zovanni said:
I got the same problem with my mmouse (3rd & 4th buttons expose etc..)
I solved it disabling the mouse preferences in USB Overdrive X, wich i use to set up my joystick with custom keys.
SO check out your usb device drivers, if you use them.
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zovanni was right. I had recently re-added USB Overdrive so I could use a gamepad with my Mac and disabling the "Mouse Overdrive" settings returned full functionally (and correct scrolling speed) to my Mighty Mouse.
 
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