Magic Mouse Intermittent Clicks

Just started using my Magic Mouse yesterday. I have noticed that it will randomly stop clicking. The cursor will continue to move normally, but I can't select anything with the mouse. Within 5-10 seconds the mouse will continue working again.
This happens roughly 5-10 times an hour, and I need my mouse for work so it's definitely not going to work out if this is normal behavior for the mouse. Anyone experience this issue with your own mouse, or know a fix?

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My Magic mouse right-click doesn't work in Mountain Lion! in previous OSes it was working properly (Leopard and Lion), but when I upgrated to Mountain, this problem occured.
if you click anywhere on the magic mouse, it simply do a click, not a right-click anyway...
I did a lot of searches and changes but the problem is still alive...
somewhere suggested disabling "Secondary Click", then restart, and then enabling it. but nothing changed...
somewhere suggested to remove two files named "com.apple.Bluetooth..." in /Library/Preferences, and then restart the system, but this not worked for me, too...
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I wondered what can I really do to solve this problem?!
any suggestion is appreciated...

I still use the magic-mouse and still it's not stable. I've found theONLY way to overcome the rightclick is to make sure that you're NOT pressing anywhere else on the mouse (even touching) and only pressing at theTOP right-hand most corner.
It's not the best resolution, but the best that Applecare could provide me with. I thinjk, because it's relatively new due to the new generation of capacitive touch devices that we all get the bugs/flaws.
As like the iPhone, although an EXCELLENT device, and the various versions of OSX, we're going to be plagued eith bugs until a newer review comes out.
The way I found out was to use BOTH tools (MagicPrefs and BetterTouchTool) together, and in both set the Rightclick sensitive area to a near nothing for system wide (non app specific).
It does fail at times on some apps, and takes a few clicks, but 90% of the time it's cleared up.
I somehow think that most developers (and yes its the developers not apple) that forget that we rest out palms on the mouse) and they don't filter out the events forrectly (i.e. a palm on the mouse is seen as a tap). Othere works well, for exmaple I use photoshop, which adapted well to the mouse. The majority of games, and including those (ESPECUALLY THOSE) flash mbased, don't like the mouse at all!

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Any ideas?, I found something (link below) but I'm not sure if its safe.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/26184/magic-mouse-middle-click-in-windo ws-7-64-bit-bootcamp

That looks relatively safe but quite impractical in the long run.
I'm looking to achieve something similar, getting the middle click button to work, since it would be very useful through general productivity in terms of web browsing as well as for gaming such as Minecraft (building).
Anyone got any ideas as to how to achieve this? I know it's not possible to get this functionality in OS X without some third-party tool such as MagicPrefs, but surely it should be possible in Windows.
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My magic mouse right click is not working. I have looked and the box is checked in the preferences but still not RT click. Please advise

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Yes the preferences does not help with this issue I have done everything to get my right click back but no joy. Until now this is a kind of fix for it. If you go to google and search magicprefs it is a free download and it basically lets you pick and choose what your mouse gestures does for you when you swipe ,click and tap your mouse thus you can click on the right mouse gesture and voila you have right click back.
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In order to help Apple Care get to the core of the issue I posted the following video to youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBzisliiVpg
In addition, another Mac user with a similar problem posted this video to youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxLY3-pH-rs
I personally think that others suffers should use the QuickTime X screen recording function to make a small movie that clearly shows the problem. Then post the video to youtube and notify Apple Care and Apple Feedback of the problem (www.apple.com/feedback)
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A lot of people have encountered this, Tom, myself included (see discussion here for instance: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11547453&#11547453).
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On my iMac running Yosemite 10.10.2, the double-click function on the Magic Mouse no longer works. So to open a folder, or anything for that matter, I must always do click-control ---and that doesn't work for everything. For example, I can't double click on a character in Glyphs, so this renders Glyphs useless. And so on... I have gone into preferences to see if anything was amiss in the settings, but everything checked out fine. Is there a fix for this, or do I have to wait for the next upgrade for Yosemite? Help! Thanks... --Royce

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Hi, I am using Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro via Bootcamp. My magic mouse working good but I need middle click for some design softwares. I found some softwares can simulate middle click but the softwares just running under Mac OS. Are there any Windows compatible software like Magicprefs or Middleclick?
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Hello,
I have the same mouse and after searching a solution, I found this article:
http://superuser.com/questions/814156/hp-bluetooth-mouse-works-in-osx-on-macbook -but-not-in-windows-8-1-boot-camp
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I got a Magic Mouse for Christmas this morning and set up with my Macbook Pro. The setup went quickly and well. I was able to move the cursor around my screen with the Magic Mouse.
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I had the same problem this evening. Is it possible that you had your USB or trackpad mouse buttons reversed when you switched to the Bluetooth mouse?
I normally reverse my mouse buttons (like for left handed people). My index finger naturally rests on the upper right corner of the mouse. When I try to use the normal button config, my hand and forearm fatigue in no time. Reversing the buttons allows me keep my index finger relaxed for all the normal mouse clicking, then I reach left for the "right" button.
It also discourages others from using my computer!
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Can the magic mouse be reprogrammed to produce a right click?

It does do a right click. Enable it in System Preferences > Mouse > check Secondary click.
Click on the right side or you can hold down the Control key and just left click.

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Sounds like a hardware failure yes?
What to do - visit the geniuses?

You won't see the laser light, it's not visible to the eye. Try cleaning the laser sensor/transmitter with a Q-tip and insure you have good batteries.
Regards,
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Magic Mouse - no click on whole surface

Hello,
I run SL 10.6.2, installed Magic Mouse update nevertheless, installed MagicMouse. Gestures work fine with one exception: I can click left and right, but only with the click noise as any other mouse.
I thought the whole surface will work for a left click, but it does not, only when I push so that the mechanik mouse click start. When I jut tap on the surface, there is no click at all.
Before this I used BT MightyMouse. But this I disconnected and deleted the preference-file for that as well.
Any ideas?
Am I right, that the click should do by just tapping somewhere on the (left) surface of the mouse?

You can click anywhere on its surface, but you have to press hard enough, so the surface moves down to make a click. The touchpad on Apple laptops works the same way. You have to press enough for the touchpad to move down for it to send a click.
If it sent a click just by touching, you would get accidental clicks when positioning your fingers on it for scrolling, or other gestures.
MouseWizard
<http://www.samuco.net/web/node/23>
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