Mighty mouse issue

My mighty mouse (wired) will not scroll down. It scrolls up and side to side just fine. Just...not down.
I've seen other issues to cleaning. It doesn't seem that would help here since it scrolls ok in all directions but one. It has always worked great. Just stopped recently.

*Hi Phil, Welcome (Back)* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
Yep, needs cleaning of the scroll wheel. Slightly dampen lintless cloth w water or acohol. Unplug mouse and scroll firmly on the cloth. I have a can of compressed air and blow it out.
Good Luck, JP

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Mighty Mouse Issues

Hello, The scroll ball on my wired Mighty Mouse will not scroll up, I have checked settings in preferences, everything seems ok. While trying to scroll up it almost feels like it is dragging (the little blue scroll ball) Scrolling down or side way works perfect. Don't know if it is the actual mouse or a software issue. Any one with ideas??

Glad to hear that the cleaning worked for you.
As David said, the surface that you use the mouse on will affect the accuracy of the mouse. The optical sensor can be easily confused if the pattern is not consistent.
I have found that the right mouse pad can make a huge difference. It's the pattern that actually makes the difference. You could probably get great results just using it on a non-glossy desk.
Wood-grain or a flat textured color would be fine.
But, I've actually gotten the best results on patterned mouse pad.
The ones I use are round mouse pads, as thin (or thinner) than a sheet of paper), and have a pattern that optical mice like.
They are called "WOW!PAD"
The company that makes them is at:
http://www.microthin.com
My pad is "Dots 007" if you look at the pictures on the page at:
http://www.microthin.com/prod_wowpaddesigns.htm
You can read more about the pads by going to the following page, and selecting the different options in the selection box:
http://www.microthin.com/prod_wowpad.htm
I've found that it almost completely eliminated the pointer problems on my Microsoft Mouse, and 100% eliminated the problems on both my Apple Pro mouse and Mighty Mouse.
My Apple mice don't jump around at all now. So, give that a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I hope this helps.
Let us know if you have other questions.
P.S., if you'd like, go ahead and click the "Helpful" or "Solved" buttons on any of the posts / replies above if you feel they were helpful or adequately answered your question.

Bizzare Mighty Mouse Issue

I apologize if this posting seems poorly placed in the forums, I can't find a spot specific to the mighty mouse.
I just bought a wired mighty mouse three days ago, and it's worked great. But a mere fifteen minutes ago, It became schizophrenic. With just the slightest amount of pressure on the top (not even enough to engage a 'click'), the side button action begins to rapid fire, with the accompanying internal clicking noise (a lá iPod). I had to turn the side button action off, lest I go batty from turning exposé on/off 8 times a second. I've tried unplugging, restarting, resetting mouse system prefs but it still audibly freaks out with only the slightest graze. Is this a software issue, or is my mouse defective? I'll graciously accept any advice.

*Hi Phil, Welcome (Back)* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
Yep, needs cleaning of the scroll wheel. Slightly dampen lintless cloth w water or acohol. Unplug mouse and scroll firmly on the cloth. I have a can of compressed air and blow it out.
Good Luck, JP

Brand New Mighty Mouse - ISSUES

I had a wireless Mighty Mouse and it worked perfectly. That was until my 2-year-old daughter got her hands on it. So I bought a new one. But I've been having problems with it. When I'm using it directly beneath my iMac (2 inches away) it works fine. Any further away from the computer and the curser jumps and stutters around. I can't figure out what's going on. Any suggests would be appreciated.

Hello:
Contact Apple with a warranty issue. There is no reason that should happen.
Barry

Wireless Mighty mouse issues

What can cause a conflict between wireless mighty mouse and the f1 & f2 ? befor i setup wireless mouse i had no problems adjusting the brightness and dimmin

Nm, I was able to adjust the brightness & dimm by hiting fn than f1 or f2

Right-Click w/ Mighty Mouse issue

Alright, I set my mouse up right for the button being secondary and all that so that I can right click. However it only seems to work sometimes and on certain things. Is this normal? For example, when I right click a link in firefox it just opens the page. No right click menu. It drives me nuts. Or when I right click to try and copy highlighted text it won't do it. Grrr...
Any advice or is it just a bug?
Sarah

Nevermind. It seems I have to click the very tip of the right side of the mouse. Not easy when you just want to click in the middle of the right side.

Mighty Mouse sudden scroll issues on Mavericks

My bluetooth Mighy Mouse (a little ancient, but still works well for me) was functioning perfectly till suddenly the vertical scrolling increased speed rapidly, followed shortly by the horizontal scrolling failing completely. This all happened after an episode of letting my battery die to the point of power down, me plugging in the Mac, giving it a few minutes to boot only to find everything very slow, then doing a restart. Upon start up, my Mac returned to being its normal speedy self, but this Mighty Mouse issue occured.
The settings in preferences -> mouse are ''lowest scroll speed'' and "vertical and horizontal" scrolling
I have reset the SMC and PRAM. This did nothing.
Any suggestions???

Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't know of that preference item.
But changing this did not help, in fact it seems to coincide with the System Preferences>Mouse>Scrolling (change one, and the other changes too). And changing this scrolling setting anywhere from low to high doesn't seem to change my current scrolling speed. It is unregulated.
I should also mention that I have two bluetooth Mighty Mice and one corded Mighty Mouse. All of these have super-fast vertical scrolling and NO horizontal scrolling.
Also, when resetting the PRAM, it is an obvious restart. When resetting SMC, is there any visible/audible cues that the reset has occured? I just want to rule these two possible solutions out.

Mighty mouse usb and wireless issues with OSX 10.6.1

Since upgrading to OSX 10.6.1 I have experienced intermittent mighty mouse issues with both the USB and wireless mouse. Essentially the mouse works as a pointer. However, I cannot select anything or use the mouse buttons. I need to re-start the machine in order to get it to work properly again. Anyone else had this issue or have suggestions for fixing it?

Pushing the power button briefly on my iMac turns off the display and stops the hard drive running (both my internal and external drive). Pushing it briefly again brings everything back up in about 2 seconds - it's not a full startup. That's why I call it "sleep" - cause that's what it seems to be doing.

Mighty Mouse scroll disables Catch

Right or left scroll with the Mighty Moue disables the Catch mode. It just disables the activated “Walking Man” in the Arrange window or any window that has that button. However, this happens only when Logic is in play mode.
The 360 degree scrolling wheel on the Mighty Mouse is one of the best workflow improvements. No more trips down to the scroll bar when working in long Arrange or Edit windows. Also the option+scroll feature for zooming, very nice.
I saw some similar posts about Mighty Mouse issues, especially pressing the scroll button. Didn’t experience that, because I programmed the “push scroll wheel” to “close window”. This makes it really fast when you open windows (with a key command), do the editing or just checking some settings and click (on he scroll button) and the window is gone.
But this “Catch” bug is driving me nuts. Can anybody confirm that behavior. (I’m using the SteerMouse driver.)

However, Catch is turned off when you scroll manually, but
only if Logic is in play mode, not in stop mode
This makes sense, as if you're playing a song and need to scroll to see a different window position, if the catch function wasn't turned off, you'd either have difficulty scrolling or the window would jump back to the spl when you let go of the mouse.
You can't have Logic just in those two modes, where Catch
mode is enabled (Follow with now ifs and whens and stay
that way) and Catch mode is disabled
You can't?
Leave the catch when starting preference off, and catch will stay off unless you turn it on, regardless of playing. When it's on, it will stay on, unless you scroll away from the spl during playback.
So that gives you your two modes, controlled by you, apart from when you "force" Logic to not follow the spl when you navigate away from it during playback (or would you rather have Logic not let you scroll the window while playing with catch on?
I'd have to play with the other catch prefs you mention to remember their exact behaviour, I can't exactly remember all the options at the moment. For me, I have catch on start on, and usually let Logic follow the spl, unless I want to look elsewhere, and I don't have a problem with Logic in this respect.

Mighty mouse forum location

Just got an email about a solution for a sticky mouse ball in the mighty mouse. Was going to post it in the right topic but did not see it right off. I usually hang out in the old folks home of vintage macs and the mighty mouse is not yet vintage.
BTW, here is the link:
http://www.skyhorse.org/2007/11/mac-annoyance-1-mighty-mouse-scroll-stops-workin g
thanx,
Jim

There isn't a specific place for Mighty Mouse issues, but since you've attained Level 3 status, you can post user tips in http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=599 which is the User Tips Library here.

Mighty mouse mania

hi all
wireless mighty mouse..had the scroll wheel problems...cleaned it..put in new batteries...now it is scrolling but FREAKING OUT on me...if the pointer just touches something it opens it up..clicks without clicking so to speak..i have tweeked my pref's but nothing changes..it is making me NUTS!!! what can i do??

I would like to suggest to the management of this forum, that they create a separate sub-forum just for Mighty Mouse issues. I have had similar issues with mine and I have tried both the Bluetooth version and the corded version. It would be nice to be able to go to a forum that has just mouse issues. I have also had the Bluetooth tracking issue, so after reading all the posts I've stumbled across here and elsewhere, I'm convinced that the Mighty Mouse needs a major re-design. Not the outside shell - it both looks and feels perfect. I switched reluctantly because I really liked how the Mighty Mouse worked when it was working. I wonder if Apple is even thinking in that direction? Like a lot of others, I have changed to a third party mouse, but it is butt-ugly and doesn't really fit in with the Mac look.
Rich

Mighty Mouse scroll ball has issues

I've had my Mighty Mouse for about a month of standard use, but suddenly the scroll ball will no longer scroll down (up and side-to-side are fine). I've carefully cleaned the ball, to no avail. I understand that some others have had issues, but that their issues remain unsolvable (they contacted Apple Support for an exchange).
1) Can any one tell me the number to call Apple (from the USA)? I haven't been able to find it on the site map (all the support numbers are associated with AppleCare).
2) I only noticed the problem after the upgrade to X.4.4. Could that possibly have anything to do with the problem?

Hi Jessica,
It could be a software or a hardware problem, I had the same problem with my MM but made the mistake of disassembling it.
Take the mouse to another Mac and see if it works, then you'll know it's a MM problem.
When you roll the ball do you hear a slight clicking noise? This would mean the ball is making contact with the rollers.
Maybe the ball needs to dry or be cleaned with rubbing alcohol (as it evaporates)
You would call the AppleCare number, and yes they might give you a headache about AppleCare, but tell them you have a hardware related warranty call.
If you find it works on another recent Mac (with MM software installed) it might be a OS problem of some sort.
What's good to do occassionally is to clone your boot drive, this way you can boot off a slightly older version of the OS to sort through bugs like this.
It also makes a good backup method.
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/Personal11.html

Mighty Mouse Scroll Issue

I have a strange problem with my mighty mouse. On my Mac I have 2 separate logins - both with admin. The scroll up and down works with one of the logins but not the other. I have tried over and over with both logins, turning the scroll on and off but it remains the same. It's obviously not a mouse problem - does anyone know what may be causing this?

I found this : Mouse won't scroll for one User but works for another : answer posted by a knowledgeable user.
While it doesn't match your issue exactly, its similarity indicates a possible solution. Easy enough to try anyway.

Mighty Mouse Scroll Issue - Application Specific

So, I just got a bluetooth Mighty Mouse and have a strange issue. I have one program where it simply won't scroll? All other programs function properly, so I have a decent connection. It's just this one database program (Panorama), which runs our business applications that won't scroll?
I already have a BT Mighty Mouse on my laptop and it works fine with this program? Any thoughts as to where to begin trouble shooting? I've tried everything I could think of and don't know what else to try.

No help huh? I have spent literally hours trying to figure this out. One solution, which I can't try is reinstalling the software for the bluetooth wireless mouse. This really ticks me off...I just ordered this machine and it arrived a couple of days ago, set it up and all is fine except for this issue. I'm going through the package shipped to me by Apple (I upgraded my keyboard and mouse to bluetooth when I configured the machine and ordered in online from apple). THERE IS NO DISK FOR THE WIRELESS KEYBOARD OR MOUSE IN THE PACKAGE!!! What the heck. Shouldn't there be? I can't seem to find the software anywhere on line, so how am I supposed to reinstall the software to see if that clears my problem? Aaaahhhh.....

Mighty Mouse Button Issue

Hello,
First, let me apologize if it is not the proper section to post my question. I didn't find a relevant section relating to mighty mouse.
I recently was having problems with my scroll on my wireless mighty mouse so I rubbed the scroll ball on a blank sheet of paper, and it worked fine. However, now my left click and right click buttons do not work. They work but they perform what I set for button 3. Whatever action I set for button 3 be that Expose, Desktop, Dashboard, etc it is performed by all 3 buttons now. I am afraid I might have pressed the mouse harder than necessary when cleaning the scroll ball. And now I believe it's stuck pressed permanently. However, when I turn my button 3 off, I can only left click but no right click.
I don't feel too excited to jam open my new mouse, so I was hoping if there are any work arounds this issue. Please help.
Many thanks!

I fixed it! I just cleaned it again on a piece of paper, not being so rough this time, and it's working properly again.

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