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track pad problem on macbook pro ????

  • 02-09-2010 12:42PM
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    im so much trouble with the track pad on my mac!!!!! when i click things etc its drags that item every where and if i click a page or click thats open and when i move the mouse icon it copys every thing on the pad like i was copying and pasting the page etc , this has all ready cased me problems before , by deleting things or moving things with put me not wanting them to be moved , this is so annoying , i have tried fixing it in the preference but nothing seems to be making a difference


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    Sad Professor
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    This is a feature. Turn off "dragging" and "drag lock" in the Trackpad preferences. I assume you want "tap to click" on, yes?


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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    This is a feature. Turn off "dragging" and "drag lock" in the Trackpad preferences. I assume you want "tap to click" on, yes?

    yes the tap is good

    :) cheers


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    k well they are off now


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    as above , the problem has caused some stuff to be all over the place on my mac , i dont know how to explain this well but i will give it a shot .in my trash there are spaces of things missing etc but when i connect my external hard drive things apear in the spaces missing in thrash , i dont know what to do , i dont now weather i have deleted stuff of my external hard drive etc ?? really dont know what to do :rolleyes::(


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    Sad Professor
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    Do you want to delete them? If not, with the external hd connected, move them back to where they were on the external hd. Or else, if you do want to delete them, empty the trash and they'll be gone.

    Whenever you move something to the trash it is actually getting moved to an invisible folder called .trash on the hard drive it is stored on. So there's a .trash folder on your internal hd and another one on your external hd. The trash folder on OS X's Dock shows the contents of all these .trash folders (they are really just shortcuts). This is why if you move something from an external hd to the trash without emptying it, and then disconnect the hard drive, it will disappear from the trash. Make sense?


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    no i dont want to delete them ???

    but what i dont understand is why are items showing up in macs thrash when i connect my external hard drive but when i eject the external hd they disappear from my macs thrash


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    Sad Professor
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    Read what I wrote above.

    If you don't want to delete them, connect the external hd and move the files out of the trash.


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