Cursor/tracking pad problem

I am using a mac book pro with mountain Lion 10.8.2. the tracking with the cursor is off. over reactive, freezing. Clicking on things randomly, cursor tavelling all over page. any ideas. It was running fine yesterday. no prior problem with this.

If you have more than one pointing device "connected" (and a Bluetooth device is always connected unless you intervene and shut it down) your Mac uses an "all devices active" philosophy. You can literally move the cursor with the "sum" of two pointing devices.
(You can type every-other-letter on two keyboards as well.)

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Hello BiancaBriandt,
Welcome to the Community
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no use explaining the details of the problem, those who know about should respond.
my friend just bought one and his is smooth with no crunchy feel. very irritating and is annoying.
not interested in fixing myself.
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Is Adobe fixing this? Need it fixed NOW!

Hi,
We sincerely apologize for the problem customers are facing while using a trackpad with Photoshop Elements 11 & 12 on Mac OSX 10.10 (Yosemite).
We have been actively working with Apple to resolve this problem as quickly as possible. We're hopeful this will get completely resolved in an upcoming update of Yosemite(MAC 10.10).
In the meanwhile, you have two options to work around this problem:
1. Option1: Use a mouse instead of the trackpad
2. Option2: Install a plug-in which should workaround the problem
Plug-in installation instructions:
1. Close Photoshop Elements
2. Download this zip file to a location you can easily find (e.g. your desktop)
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• For Elements 12 – //Applications/Adobe Photoshop Elements 12/Support Files/Plug-Ins/
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