Magic Trackpad rubber missing!

The rubber piece on the bottom of the trackpad has fallen out. The left click is not working now. I have looked through the Apple site to see if I can get a replacement, but can't find anything. Where can I find a replacement part?

Go to a local Apple premium reseller, who often have their own workshops and in the process of repairing items, end up with miscellaneous bits and pieces.
Otherwise, most DIY stores sell small bags of cork with adhesive backs. Maybe this would act as an alternative.

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I lost the grey, round shaped rubber placed under the magic trackpad to support clicking. the rubber detached from the trackpad and lost. Where can i find the thing as i am not sure whether apple sell small spare part like this?

i had lost the grey, round shaped rubber placed under my magic trackpad. i think it detached from the trackpad body and lost. where can i get this small spare part as i couldn't find this small spare part in apple store?

Wish I could be more positive but as far as I can see, the solution is to make something for yourself and tape it on. It appears they do not supply a proper replacement and Ifixit, the usual people say they don't have them.
Here is a company that supply rubber feet. It may be worth contacting them and asking if they have something that will do the job.
http://www.wowshop.co.uk/1%20inch%20rubber%20feet?_tt=g_1455876706_6722138569_56 292842294_c&gclid=COvs0q3pysECFavpwgodMU4APA

Magic Trackpad - no "set up bluetooth trackpad" option in preferences

Just bought a magic trackpad, updated to 10.6.4, laptop finds the magic trackpad (verified by looking at bluetooth panel), but I can't set it up/ connect. When I go to the trackpad section in preferences, the option that the instruction manual talks about just isn't there ("Click "set up bluetooth trackpad..." in the lower right corner", p.4 of the manual). Lower right corner is empty...
Maybe I'm missing something here? I know it's finding it, but no connect-ability... Interestingly the keyboard section of preferences does have a setup bluetooth keyboard option.
Have all the relevant updates to 10.6.4. been made?

My apple store purchased trackpad also had misleading instructions. Why it couldn't reference the exact download location for the software is a mystery. What, they couldn't have come up with a URL in advance? Sheesh! Worse, going to Apple.com/Downloads and searching on Trackpad reveals Windows 32- and 64-bit installers but no MacOSX installer!
Fortunately I eventually found the link in this forum. I'm no newbie; Apple made the MacOSX trackpad update impossible to find. Hopefully some Apple staffer will read this and fix the download search, or better yet, get the update pushed out the auto-update path.

Magic Trackpad Sensitivity

Is there a way (3rd party software perhaps) to adjust the sensitivity of the Magic Trackpad?
I use the one-touch option in preferences (Tap to click - one touch finger) because this works best for me, however I find it too sensitive - I'm accidentally tapping things I don't want which is really frustrating.

Hmm,
I have been using Mac's since they had the cute little handles in the top. I have no idea how many mice, track balls, pads..... I have used but it would be a large number.
If this is "simply an adjustment to the device issue", IMHO the thing is tooooo... sensitive. I have worked with mine for months and still have the same problems no matter what I do. There are times when no matter how much you call something a feature it fails to benefit the vast majority.
The other possibility is some sort of hardware/software malfunction in some of the track pads, hardware/software combinations...
There it went, for some reason, I could not type in all of pads ^ above, then it was like it was selecting some of the letters and not letting me type anything else. Tapping the track pad seemed to clear the problem. I don't think I even touched the pad before I saw the problem, I was just typing, until I saw the missing letters... It's kind of like the pad selects things for reasons only it understands...Or maybe it is a software bug, of some random nature, that got introduced with the track pad...Sometimes I just seem to be stuck, until I tap the track pad.
The fact that I am having exactly the same "other" issues the poster above mentions which I did not: added to the fact that person has apparently used multiple different Apple track pads without this problem, leads me to believe that "where there is smoke there is fire".
Maybe I will take it to the Apple Store and have it checked out.

Magic Trackpad with Bootcamp?

Hi, I have been reading on the support page, that one need Boot Camp 3.1.35 to enable the Magic Trackpad support on a Windows partition. Now 3.1.35 needs obviously 3.1 to be installed. When I try to install 3.1 the installer says I need Boot Camp 3.0... Now the problem starts. There is no Boot Camp 3.0 I can find to download. When running the Mac I have Boot Camp 3.0.1 displayed. So I am confused what this all means? Does somebody know what I need to do to get those Boot Camp versions installed?
Thanks.

I installed all the various updates last night--just curious, did I miss it or is there no way to reconfigure the magic trackpad under windows (I'm running XP SP3) in bootcamp?
I'm also finding that the sensitivity of taps on the trackpad is pretty poor running under windows, when compared to running under Mac OS X. Not that I'm stunned by that revelation. I'm just curious if others are finding the same thing.
The other "stupid" question I have--the manual says the magic trackpad goes to sleep after inactivity or you can turn it off. There does not seem to be any indication that the trackpad is on or off (since once it is paired the green light goes off).
So the trackpad is "on". Do you just push the on/off button and assume it shut down?

Magic trackpad not working with mac mini

I have a new Mac mini and I paired a wireless trackpad and magic trackpad. I paired the trackpad with my MBP and it works exactly like the trackpad on my MBP. When I use the trackpad with the mini, I can't get it to "right click" or two finger scroll. For example, if I'm in iTunes, and want to scroll through my library, a two finger scroll on the trackpad just moves the curser, the only way I can move up and down on a page is to use the arrows. I can't get it to give me anything with a right click. When I go to System Prefrences, it only shows "keyboard" and "mouse", but no set up options for the trackpad. And under the mouse settings, it doesn't give me any "secondary" click options. What am I missing?

I had the same problem. Rebooting the computer fixed the issue for me.

Magic trackpad touch to click

I have an older MBP, 17", 2008 model, I believe. Since many gestures don't work with the installed trackpad, I bought the magic trackpad. The installation appeared to go well, but when I open preferences, I only see preferences for "Trackpad", which appears to be some odd combination of the installed device and the Magic Trackpad. I see nothing about "4 finger gestures". All the gestures I associate with 4 fingers from the box and apple's website, show up using 3 fingers, not 4.
Also, and my main reason for asking, is that the touch to click does not work on the Magic Trackpad. I can push down to click, but I love the touch to click feature, but it doesn't work on the Magic Trackpad. It shows "Tap to Click" selected, and that option works on the installed trackpad, but it doesn't work with the Magic Trackpad.
I'm a little miffed with it all. I bought Lion because it had all the gestures. Only to find out most of them don't work on my system. It wasn't clear that was the case when I upgraded. So this time, I specificly looked hard to see if any features would be limited on older versions of MBP's and I could find nothing, so I bought it, installed it, and now can't get some of the gestures to work or even display what's available for "4 finger gestures".
Any ideas on this? Do some of the features not work with it? Or is something setup wrong and I need to change it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

iwebdrivingmecrazy wrote:
I have checked for updates and it says everything is up to date. I just bought it from the apple store yesterday, so I would think once it installed, it would be all good, but not so much.
The touch to click doesn't work on the magic trackpad at all.
Are you saying that your prefences for the Magic trackpad shows all the 4 touch gestures? Mine only shows 3 finger gestures. Even under all the demonstrations for the additional gestures, it shows demos of 3 finger gestures only.
What am I missing?
Did you check for updates while the MT was connected?
My Trackpad Prefs show 2 options under Four Finger.
I dunno that you're missing anything, but something doesn't sound right. Try clicking on the button "Set up BT trackpad" in Trackpad prefs.
If no luck, open BT prefs and remove MT. Restart MBP and add it again.

Anyone else with a Magic Trackpad and a MacBook Pro?

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.
Thanks,
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.

My iMac's Bluetooth isn't detecting the Wireless KB nor the Magic Trackpad.

Hi All,
I've been trying to pair my Wireless Kb and Magic Trackpad with my 24" iMac but with no use.
I've went to the preferences of the bluetooth and tried to detect them but it just can't find them, also I've tried to connect the phone to it (just to see if the BT works) but even that isn't found.
I have the latest OS and I don't know what's the problem.
Please advise... Thanks.

There are two known cures for this problem, documented on other threads that you can find by searching for "magic trackpad."
1. Uninstall USB Overdrive, if you ever installed it in the first place. It comes with an uninstaller, which you should run. But the uninstaller doesn't remove everything, so you have to search in the Finder (with system files included) for any file with "usboverdrive" in the file name, and delete them. Then reboot.
2. The problem may recur shortly after removing USB Overdrive. If it does recur, or if you never installed USB Overdrive, do this:
Shut down your Mac, unplug the power cord, unplug the USB cable from all USB devices, wait a minute or two, plug the power cord back in, start up, then replug all USB devices (the last step will give you back control of your keyboard and other USB devices). Maybe you should shut down and restart again, but I don't think you have to.
Here's the explanation for step 2: On many Macs (maybe all Macs), Bluetooth is handled through a USB driver. For some reason, the USB Bluetooth driver can become disabled. The symptom is that the Bluetooth preference pane no longer appears in System Preferences or, if it does appear, a line of text at the top of the Bluetooth pane says something like "Name of device unknown." In addition, if you had the Bluetooth menu item set to show in the menubar, it appears with a squiggly line through it, and its only menu item says something like "Bluetooth: not available." After you apply the cures described above, the Bluetooth preference pane will once again appear in System Preferences and work correctly (once you re-pair your Magic Trackpad, if you have to do that), and the Bluetooth menu item will function normally. You can also verify that everything is working correctly by running System Profiler and selecting Hardware > USB. When the Magic Trackpad is working correctly, you will see that one of the USB drivers is described as the Bluetooth USB driver. When Magic Trackpad is not working, the Bluetooth item is missing from the list of USB drivers.
Another symptom, in my case, was that when the Magic Trackpad stopped working, iTunes stopped recognizing my iPhone 4 on its third-party USB charging stand. When I applied these cures, iTunes once again recognized the iPhone. I'm guessing that any USB device might become flaky while the Magic Trackpad isn't working, perhaps due to interaction unique to your particular setup.
I have reported all this to Apple on the developer bug report site, and Apple has responded with interest. So I think they're on it.
Hope this helps.

Organizer 12 - how to zoom over 100%, compare images, use the Magic Trackpad?

English Version below.
Hallo zusammen. Ich bin von Apple Aperture auf PSE 12 gewechselt. Nun habe ich meine 11500 Fotos im Organizer und ein paar Startschwierigkeiten.
Ich habe in den Voreinstellungen angegeben, dass man Fotos auf über 100% skalieren darf. Das funktioniert aber nicht. Fotos werden immer nur im Fenster eingepasst, wenn der Zoomhebel ganz nach rechts steht.
Einzig in der Vollbildansicht kann man über 100% skalieren. Dies funktioniert aber auch, wenn ich die Voreinstellung dazu nicht gesetzt habe.
ie vergleiche ich mehrere Bilder? Im Handbuch steht beschrieben, dass man dazu aus dem Menü Ansicht -> Bilder Vergleichen wählen soll. Diesen Menüpunkt gibt es bei mir nicht.
Auch bei dem Druck auf F12 geschieht bei mir nichts. Kann ich die Tastenfunktionen irgendwo neu zuweisen?
Zu guter Letzt: kann ich die Zoom & Pinch Funktion des Magic Trackpads irgendwie einschalten? Das vermisse ich sehr. Da war Aperture sehr Bedienerfreundlich.
English Version
Hi there. I switched from Apple Aperture to PSE 12. Now I have my 11500 photos in the Organizer and a few teething problems.
I have specified in the preferences that you can resize photos to over 100%. This does not work. Photos are always fitted only in the window when the zoom lever is all the way to the right.
Only in the full-screen view you can scale over 100%. However, this also works if I have not set the setting in the preferences.
How do I compare multiple images? The manual describes to select from the View menu -> Compare images. This menu item does not exist for me. (German Version)
Also by pressing F12, nothing happens. Can I re-assign the button functions somewhere?
Last but not least: How can I use the zoom & pinch from the Magic Trackpad? I 'm missing that very much. Aperture was very user friendly with that.

Hello Barbara and thank you for your answer.
I've ment side by side view. And it works by pressing F12 + cmd. Thanks.
Zoom & Pinch only works in the Editor, but not very well or smooth. And I couldn't tell you how often the Editior rotate my images unwanted ...
In the preferences of the Organizer, there is no point for a scroll wheel. And I'm really not able to zoom in the organizer over the "fitts in screen" size.
And I've found some more problems Sometime I'd like to export my images without any Exif/Metadata Information and resized. I haven't found any point do do so.
At the Moment, I'm thinking about switching back to Aperture, where I came from - I've tried to use PSE 'cause of Adobes Raw Converter, which is much much better with Olympus RAW Files than Apertures.

After pairing in Bootcamp, magic trackpad does not work

after pairing in Bootcamp, magic trackpad a) does not control cursor and b) does not persist after closing Bluetooth devides dialog.
Summary of Problem:
Magic Trackpad is found and paired, but does not control the mouse.
When you shut the Bluetooth devices and reopen (or reboot and reopen), the device is not listed.
Detials of problem:
Bootcamp 3.1 (i cannot find a later one) Windows XP all updates, All Apple Software Updates (to bootcamp and mac os x) installed, Magic Trackpad driver download and installed.
Control Panel, Bluetooth Devices, Add - it detectes the magic track pad (ie track pad blinking, click add) everytime
- It asks about a pass code, I have tried it without a pass code and with automatically Generate Passcode; does this setting matter?
In bluetooth devides, the track pad shows with "Auto Generated passkey" when that is the option selected
Found new hardware comes up, Apple Wireless Trackpad, everything looks fine.
- In Bluetooth Devices, it shows the trackpad wiht "no passkey", even when I told it to automatically generate one.
The track pad does not control the cursor.
Close Bluetooth Devices and reopen it, or reboot and reopen Bluetooth devices, and the track pad is gone.
Rebooting does not change the outcome of above.
I have gone to device manager and tried to update the two (apple & microsoft) Bluetooth drivers with the update button, it says I have the most current.
I do not see how to tell if the Magic Trackpad driver is installed, so I tried installing it again. It does appear to be listed under HID in device manager.
I have done a lot of googling, wasted a lot of time, if I cannot get it to work, I will return it to the apple store.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
bob

Bob, cannot help directly but I am having a similar problem on my MacBook Pro with Windows 7 Pro. Pretty much the same symptoms except my trackpad is not always recognized - it seems I have to click it to get Bluetooth to see it. Windows claims to have seen it OK on one occasion and installed the drivers, asked for a reboot etc. but the TrackPad still does not respond.
Works OK on the Mac side although it is not recognized as a separate Bluetooth trackpad which can be configured differently from the built-in. I wonder if this might be a clue?
I have installed the patch and tried a bunch of other things. Seems like Apple has some work to do sorting out the bugs on both the Mac and Windows side with this device. Pity because its an excellent piece of kit otherwise!

Problem with Magic TrackPad and Macbook Pro

I just bought the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Magic TrackPad for my home desktop setup. I connect my Macbook Pro 13" (from august 2010) to a Dell U2410 screen.
Everything works perfectly for a while, but then the cursor starts jumping around on the screen when I use the Magic TrackPad. Now here comes the weird thing, if I open the lid on the Macbook just a few inches the jumping stops completely and the Magic TrackPad works perfectly again.
I have tried googling a bit and browsed these forums also - no luck finding a solution.
I have also tried connecting a USB mouse to the Macbook when the cursor started to jump around - no problem with the USB mouse. I have also tried a different Magic TrackPad that my friend also just have bought for his setup - same problem after a short time.
Everything is updated to the latest software and firmware.
Thank you in advance for your help.

I have the same problem with a Trackpad paired with a new Mac Mini just purchased in September. After a while, my trackpad also starts to exhibit behavior similar to those described by Hecro. The trackpad cursor feels frozen, or else it jumps around, often trying to stay away from or jump over any hyperlink in either text or graphic form on the page I am viewing.
I find that if I pick up the trackpad and hold it above my palm between my thumb on one side and my fingers on the other side — so there is no pressure on the clicking feet on the bottom of the trackpad — a "jumping" trackpad instantly becomes a "stable" trackpad. Put it back down on a surface and it starts jumping again.
Also, when it starts jumping or skipping, I also find that if I use one finger and bear down hard on the trackpad, it resumes being responsive.
I am filing a comment about this on Apple's feedback forum at www.apple.com/feedback at the advice of a Genius at the Apple Store at Cambridgeside in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA.

My mac pro won't pair with my magic trackpad.

I'm posting in this forum because I am using a Mac Pro, what we used to call a "tower," and my Magic Trackpad isn't recognized & won't pair. This has been an increasing problem over the past year, and I actually blamed the trackpad and bought a new one -- and of course it doesn't work either. My MacBook Pro (actually two of them) use the same latest version of Mountain Lion and they pair up just fine, never dropping the connection. I'm an old-timer with 25 years on the Mac, and I'm stumped. The support forums here confirm that this is a common problem -- MT not pairing -- and I have tried every suggestion I can find. Booting in safe mode, repairing permissions, trashing the bluetooth prefs file, VRAM and SMC resets, moving computer away from any possible interference, and probably two or three more I can't recall. I don't have any exotic apps installed (there's one that has something to do with Windows that can cause this problem, but I don't have it), nothing on the tower that's not on the two laptops running the same OS X version. For the record, I have a 2x2.8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM, all the original Apple installation. OS X is 10.8.4. I've tried three different brands of alkaline batteries. For a time the problem was intermittent (the dreaded "dropped connection") but now it doesn't pair up at all, i.e. neither of my two trackpads pair up. I've let the "searching" function run for as long as 30 minutes, including some restarts of the trackpad...you get the picture. Although this has been addressed in other places in support, I am posting here because so far I don't have a solution. Any ideas? I really appreciate the forum, have been here a long time, and hope that someone has that next good idea that's going to help me. Thanks in advance!

I had the same problem as you with Bluetooth stuff. It was suggested to me that I buy an external BT dongle
as the bluetooth reception in the stock Mac Pro was spotty at best.I did so- iogear 421 (the 521 is supported but ONLY in Mountain Lion, so I was told) and bluetooth works just fine. Of course it might be that the cables for your Bluetooth/Airport card in your Mac Pro could have been installed incorrectly (just google bluetooth in Mac Pro help) but...if they have been, then the dongle might be your best bet, or some kind of external antenna
(the G5 had one, as you may know, but we don't......)
I see by your posting you have tried every suggestion you possibly could, and it's not software related
and it's not a simple one-shot-done fix...
that's the best I have for now. I think I paid about $25 for the dongle and it was easy as pie to install
John B

Swipe between pages feature is freezing with magic mouse and magic trackpad in Mavericks

I am experiencing a bug in Mavericks with my Magic trackpad and the Magic mouse. This bug comes and goes and is very sporadic. When it happens I am usually in a browser like Firefox or Safari, or in iPhoto. Anything that uses the Swipe between pages feature usually locks up, and on top of this it locks the scroling up and down function in the browsers and in iPhoto. The only thing that makes these functions work again is to reeboot or turn off bluetooth and turn it back on. I see that many people are having this problem in other posts, and I am just wondering if Apple is actually working on this bug or has somebody found what trigers this bug and do they have the fix for it?
Thanks for your help
Chris

Maybe this will help. You can look for other ideas in the 'More Like This' box to the right.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/25421934#25421934
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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Is there a way to control the Magic Trackpad scrolling speed?

I just got the new magic Trackpad.
I am finding the speed of scrolling in window to be quite fast such that I it goes to far. Is there anyway to control the speed of it so it does not go to fast?
Thanks and I look forward to your reply.

I haven't received my MTP yet but if it works like the trackpad on my MBP you just don't flick your finger so fast. The speed is governed by how quickly you move your finger across the surface which is something I find very cool because it puts me in total control.
Regards,
Roger

Magic Trackpad rubber missing!

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