Swipe

Lately, I have been losing the ability to use the swipe feature on both my magic mouse and macbook pro trackpad.

I have no clue what could be causing this since nothing has changed on my machine. Any ideas?

10.6.2
3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB Ram
500 GB 7200

 

It seems like it has been happening every other day or so for the last week. I tried the obvious stuff like unpairing the mouse but that did not seem to help.

Need to try the disk utility now...

 

A while back I did install both bettertouchtool and that other touch mouse program that engadget did a feature on. Since then, I have removed both. I wonder if there are still some residual files floating around...

Also, I did try the repair permissions and a restart. This seemed to fix things last night from home and in the morning (connected to my cinema display and wireless keyboard at work). Now that I am back home just on the laptop, swipe has stopped working again.

 

I have been reading that others are also having this issue. I tried deleting a library preferences file but that only worked temporarily. This is really annoying. Anybody else found a solution?