HT4254 I cannot connect my magic trackpad to my macbook

My macbook is not detecting the new magic trackpad.

Which OS are you on? The trackpad requires 10.6.4 or later. If you are later versions of Snow Leopard or Lion, go to System Preferences > Trackpad > turn off the trackpad by holding the power button on the right side for 5 seconds, then tap the button once to turn on. The green light should flash and be detected.

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It looks like a simple problem;
I own a 27" iMac [late 2013]. Since a few weeks I have serious problems with pairing my Magic Trackpad.
It is no longer possible to connect to my iMac.
Does anyone have a solution for this problem?
Kind regards,
Rob Dijkstra

Hello robknop,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you are having issues connecting your Magic Trackpad to your iMac. The attached article has information on how to set up your Magic Trackpad I would suggest reading over. If the issue continues please let me know what alerts you may be receiving or what happens when you try to pair.
Bluetooth: How to set up your Apple Wireless Mouse or Magic Trackpad - Apple Support
Best regards,
Joe

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HT1338 After migration from MacBook 13' running OSX 10.6.8 to MacBook Pro 15' Retina OSX 10.8.2 using Migration assistant, the Bluetooth assistant mentions "name not available" and it cannot detect my Magic trackpad. There is no mention of any mishap.

I just migrated from MacBook 13' OSX 10.6.8 to MacBook Pro 15' Retina OSX 10.8.2 with the use of Migration Assistant. When attempting to install my Magic Trackpad, the Bluetooth Assistant mentions "name not available" so that the device cannot be detected. In have disconnected the firewall.Thanks for assistance.

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I cannot connect my apple trackpad to my iMac using Mavericks.

Ok, I am reading A LOT of issues with Mavericks. I am tempted toi go back to lion or snow leapord. This is shameful on Apple's part. Safari is unuseable. hard drives drop on setstart
And now I cannot connect my apple track pad. No matter what I do, It will not connect. I have read re-installing the OS will work, which means I have to re-install everytghing. Not happy. At this rate I might as well run windows 8.

um... having to update most of the system software is still incredibly time consuming, and I already did it once. Problem persists. Mavericks is fail. Period. The ONLY thing that made paying the premium for a mac WAS the OS. Now? Taking this heap back tomorrow and getting a PC. If I have to trouble shoot this much it would be better if I save money and can play games. Apparently with the death of Jobs so to does the OS die.

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So I just got the Magic Trackpad thinking I would have the same experience as my internal trackpad, only on my desktop. But I was wrong...and was wondering if anyone else noticed this...
I love the multitouch gestures, but it just feels so weird. Maybe the pad is too large?
The main problem I have with it is the click. it does not seem to "click" very much. I was bummed to see that the clicking is done all my the little two feet.
If you compare the click to the internal trackpad compared to the external Magic Trackpad, there is a big difference. The MBP click is more "clicky" and easy to do. The Magic Trackpad is more harder to click. Almost mushy. It is quieter though. But I almost prefer the loud CLICK sound from my MBP.
I also found there are two things you can do to change the performance of this click issue. You can either put things under the two feet (like I used two coins) and that kind of helps it clicker deeper, but then it slides around on your desk. (I'm going to look for those little stick-on rubber stoppers like you put on your kitchen cabinet doors to see if that helps any) The other thing I've tried is just using the tap to click and raising the trackpad up so the feet don't even touch the table. Now there is no "click" at all. The touch to click works fine, but then when it comes to cretin things when you are used to clicking, it just doesn't work out.
So my question is, has anyone else noticed this? Maybe I got a defective pad and that is why I am having such a hard time clicking?
I welcome any comments, reviews, etc. relating to this Magic Pad click issue.
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Scott

tommmy wrote:
I recently got a Magic Trackpad. The click pressure was too much so I set it to tap to click and liked it, although it was a little too sensitive for me and I don't know how to set the sensitivity.
Now I went on a trip with only my older MBP and I find it is extremely sensitive, I constantly find I seem to have clicked where I didn't intend to. The system preference doesn't have the option to turn the tap to click off without the trackpad connected.
I consider this a bug!
Am I wrong?
When your Magic Trackpad is on and connected to your MBP the settings for it will appear in system preferences.
If you turn off your Magic Trackpad to disconnect it from your MBP, the the settings that show up in System Prefs are for the INTERNAL trackpad.
Kinda confusing. They should just have two tabs at the top where you can set different settings for each trackpad.

Making Magic Trackpad like my Macbook trackpad

I have a Macbook Pro and an iMac using a Magic Trackpad. I find it irritating and unproductive (as I have to think each time I use multi-touch which "language" I have to speak) that they have different multi-touch gestures and I'd like to make them the same. I've looked but I can't find any Magic Trackpad making the gestures the same as the Macbook. Any suggestions?

Ah, now I understand the issue,
Look below each of the options and you can select 3 or 4 fingers. Just click the down arrow next to the description for other options. If you set 3 finger drag on the Point & Click tab, all the other 3 finger gestures will change to 4 finger automatically. If you want to turn off or on the double tap and drag function, it's in System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse & Trackpad tab > Trackpad options.. button > Dragging.
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The problem is that I can connect from the SL MBP to the other computers on my network as a registered user (and see all of the files there), but when I try to connect from either of the other machines running Lion (10.7.5), I can connect as a Guest, but not as any of the registered users.
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Try and isolate the issue. Check if it's only with this drive.
Check the drive with Disk Utility
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1782
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When I held down the T button to restart and connect the two, nothing happened.

Hi peawok
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Are you rebooting the Powerbook, holding down T from the moment the screen goes black until (and if) you see the Firewire symbol on its screen? Do you see the symbol?
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I am running bootcamp 4 and using a 32 bit version of Windows 7. Every time I try to connect the Magic Trackpad it loads the the drivers but when I go to use the pad it says a bluetooth device is trying to connect and asks for a pairing pin. Is there an updated driver for BootCamp 4?. Magic Trackpad connected and worked flawlessly (as usual) in Mac OS X Maverick.

UPDATE: I installed Vista on Bootcamp and tried the Magic TrackPad driver. It has the same problem. I can get the device to work as advertised on the initial install and reboots in the same OS. But when you switch from Windows to Mac OS X (or vice-versa) the device will not work: in Windows is listed as paired and connected, but does not work. In Mac OS X, it will not connect automatically and does not work. If you manually try to connect the Bluetooth icon briefly shows connected and then disconnects.
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Now when I try to connect my magic trackpad it's coming up, but as a magic mouse instead of a magic trackpad.
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Regards,
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HT4254 I cannot connect my magic trackpad to my macbook

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