Magic Mouse Right Click Stopped Working

My magic mouse is acting up, the secondary right click has stopped working, if you select left click it will work but not right click.
i have changed the battereis, restarted my mac, turned the mouse on and off but no joy, the left click just wont work, any idea on how to solve it?

Have you checked your settings?
Settings > Mouse > Point & Click that Secondary click is checked?

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Magic mouse rt click stopped working

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

Hi there
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.
Hope that is a help I know how frustrating it has been.

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No, you are not alone. I had exactly that situation with my magic mouse on my 27 inch iMac after the recent update of Yosemite.
I assumed it must be the mouse - just over a year old, so surprising.
But searching this forum I found the helpful posts suggesting deleting the com.apple.Bluetooth.plist file from Preferences. (Use Finder to go to your hard drive, open Library/Preferences and look down the long list of files to find com.apple.Bluetooth.plist. Drag a copy to your desktop, just to be safe. Then delete it from the Preferences. Restart your Mac and the file will be recreated.)
It's surprising that Apple staff aren't aware of this.

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I have a Mid-2011 21.5 iMac, 2.5 GHz., 12 GB Memory, Yosemite 10.10.1.
The Right Click stopped working on my Magic Mouse. I have tried disabling and re-enabling it in System Preferences without Success. I have tried to enable the Secondary Click to 'Click on left side' just to see if I could get the secondary click to work. All of the other functions work.
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Thank you for replying Old Toad. I was able to follow your instructions but nothing changed. My Bluetooth Mouse driver was a bit different, it include .plist
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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.
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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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I just bought the new iMac 3 weeks ago with the magic mouse which I LOVE. But in the past week I have lost the right click function 3 times now. It acts like the right click option is turned off, which I verified and tried to reset and set back which didn't work.
The only way to reactivate the right click function is to reboot the machine entirely. I also tried to turn off and back on the mouse which didn't work and I had to get another mouse to even reboot after that!
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