Help! Magic Mouse accidental deleting?

I've only had my new iMac and Magic Mouse for a month. Mostly the latter is fine but one issue is troubling. What am I doing to cause it to suddenly delete/undo what I just typed? is it the "swiping?" all I know is that I'm in the middle of writing an email when suddenly, my text is gone and there is no option for me to "undo" what has been erased. This is also causing me lots of grief while working in Finale....Thanks for any suggestions/help anyone can give me.
Nan

I'm having the same problem!! It's happening when I'm writing descriptions for products that I'm selling online. My hand will be on the mouse but not even moving and suddenly the browser goes back to the previous page and I lose my whole description! I'm not able to undo it or use the forward/back buttons on the browser to find my lost page and text. It happens totally randomly and I can't figure out what's causing it!! Grrrrr....

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