Mighty mouse won't open dashboard

For the last year or so, my mighty mouse no longer opens dashboard or any other program as it did when I first got my iMac. It scrolls just fine, and the left and right buttons function perfectly. I have gone into settings several times to try to correct the issue, disconnected/re-connected the mouse, etc, but the problem persists.
Any suggestions of correcting this? I rather like the ability to open dashboard by clicking the scroll ball.

Have you tried cleaning the "ball?" The way to do this is first disconnect the mouse from the keyboard. Rub the ball all around vigorously on white paper. Wipe w/a damp cloth. Let dry for a few minutes before plugging back onto the keyboard. Clean the mouse like this once a week.

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Mighty Mouse won't scroll

None of the answers to this topic solved my problem. All of a sudden my bluetooth mighty mouse won't scroll. I can set it to 360 degrees and it will scroll horizontally. But it won't scroll horizontally or vertically if I set it to both. Help!

Have you tried resetting bluetooth?
I have been having the same problem since nearly as long as I've had my mighty mouse, and cleaning it never solved the problem.
I just called apple and got them to send me out a new one, but before they did they told me to do this.
Turn off your Mac, removed the power and battery and hold down the power button for 5 seconds. Then turn it back on, but while you turn it back on hold down the altcmnd+RP buttons together. You will hear it ching two times as it turns on, let go after the second ching. This apparently resets the bluetooth and it fixed my mouse, it now works perfectly.
I'd recommend taking the advise of an apple technical advisor first before trying this, I have a MacBook from last year and that's what i did.

Mighty Mouse won't scroll in Stickies application

Can anyone tell me if there's a way to get a Mighty Mouse to scroll text inside a Stickie note? My Logitech wireless mouse does it, but when the batteries die I have to use my (wired) Mighty Mouse and it seems to scroll in all applications EXCEPT Stickies (G5 Quad). Even on my wife's G4 PowerBook, her wireless M.Mouse won't scroll in a Stickie note. It seems odd that any 3rd party mice will but the M.Mouse won't. Am I missing something?

Doesn't look like you're missing anything at all, strange indeed though!

Mouse won't open desktop files

Wireless mouse highlights desktop folder but won't open. Have to go to finder to "open". Mouse works as expected in dock. Have repaired permissions and repaired disk with original install CD. Mouse is still not opening folders.

The difference is that the desktop folder open requires a double click, the rest of the functions you describe are all single clicks. Check System Preferences > Mouse > Double-click slider > make sure it's not to fast, slow it to 1/2 to 3/4.
This setting determines the time between clicks to determine if a double click has occured.
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Wireless Mighty Mouse won't work properly with MacBook/tech support stumped

Hi. First post. Anyone heard of this problem? Appears to be location-sensitive. Problem described below, but first, short background...
Just bought entire Mac system after decades in corporate world with PC. Believed the TV ads that it would be simple. Already have been back to Mac store 6 times and have spent roughly 7 hours on phone with help line. Mac store even replaced Macbook entirely in case it was faulty logic board/Bluetooth circuit -- didn't help. Also, problem doesn't happen in store. So, to get to the point:
Wireless Mighty Mouse doesn't work properly when hooked up to Macbook -- herky-jerky, slow, unresponsive, sluggish, imprecise, intermittently better/worse. Went through a few Mighty Mouses and finally gave up; now using hardwire mouse and there's no problem. But before I return Mighty Mouse for refund, would like to see if there's a solution b/c I'd prefer wireless.
System is the latest little souped-up Macbook, 23" HD Cinema external monitor, external wireless Apple keyboard (which works fine), wireless Mighty Mouse (the culprit), Airport Express, HP printer. All brand new from local Mac store (Fifth Avenue, New York)... where the Genius counter folks have given up. I'm not convinced they believe me because (a) the problem doesn't occur there, and (b) after a couple of new Mighty Mouses, they finally just gave me a new Macbook to make me go away... but after going through the whole system setup once again, same problem. Have tried many different mousepads, BTW.
Tried all the stuff phone tech support suggested -- removing/installing/reinstalling software, etc. Airport works fine; using modem and printer connections there. Bluetooth works fine with keyboard. I've scouted around for intefering devices; even unplugged electrostatic loudspeakers and old tubed amps in living room (concrete wall separates rooms), unplugged hifi in same room, etc. On 40th floor of Manhattan hi-rise; concrete walls between neighbors. Have never had interference before with anything; previous PC system worked fine with Microsoft wireless (optical) mouse.
This is no longer urgent because hardwired Apple mouse works well. It's just mysterious.
Any thoughts?
Other than that, I like the Mac environment so far. Fifth Avenue store is cool, also, because it's open 24/7.
Ken
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2.16 Core 2 Duo, 2GB 667 HHz DDRS SDRAM
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Hey, thanks! That was fast. I'm impressed by the Mac community.
This program helped my hardwired mouse, actually, and did give me wider parameters on the wireless mouse, but it didn't correct the herky-jerky/sluggishness -- actually amplified those problems.
Ken

Mighty Mouse Won't Scroll Down - Solution

My iMac's mighty mouse wouldn't scroll down even after furious cleaning with a damp cloth and all that this discussion site advised.
I took the mouse into the new Cabot Circus Apple Store here in Bristol, UK. Five minutes later I was out again with a fully restored mighty mouse scroll ball.
The 'genius' used a isopropyl alcohol Prep Pad, as used by your doctor to sterile your arm before using a hypodermic needle. You can probably buy these down your local Chemists/Pharmacy. He gave me a strip of these sachets marked "Medium - Alcohol Prep Pad" manufactured by Dynarex Corporation. They seem to be selling for about £1.25 for 200. Cheap as chips even in this day and age.
http://www.quickmedical.com/dynarex/disposable-wipes/alcohol-wipes.html
He then advised me to clean my mouse this way once a week to keep it in tip-top condition.
I'm sure I read somewhere that one wasn't supposed to use anything other than a damp cloth on these devices. Oh well, there you go.
Hope this helps anyone else who have found their mouse tracker ball has stopped working.

srojtas wrote:
I just move the scroll ball on my mouse on piece of paper rapidly in all directions,
and it works (and its free). I do this when my mouse won't scroll down.
I think you have missed the point.
Try asking yourself, what would you do if rubbing your mouse on paper was no longer enough? That's the situation I was in.

Wireless Mighty Mouse won't connect with MacBook Pro in Bootcamp

I recently swapped my Bootcamp-partitioned hard drive from an older Core Duo MacBook to a late-2007 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. I had no problem using the wireless mouse with the MacBook. I'd click on the Windows desktop once it booted up and it worked flawlessly.
But on the newer MacBook Pro it won't stay connected. I have to pair it with the Windows Bluetooth control panel each time I log in.
I'm not sure if this is connected to the issue or not, but I'm not able to use the trackpad and buttons on the MacBook Pro keyboard either.
I've seached the discussions without any success. Advice anyone?
Thanks in advance.
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Well, by some stroke of dumb luck it finally connected. I slid the on/off switch open until the green light started to blink, when the mouse connected I opened it all the way and decided to work.

Mighty Mouse won't wake up on new MBP

Just got my new MBP 2.4 ghz last week. I have a Mighty Mouse (not the wireless) plugged into an external Apple keyboard which is plugged into a non-powered USB hub. The hub is plugged into the MBP. After a period of inactivity, the mouse won't wake up. The light comes on when I move it, but the cursor won't move. If I unplug the hub from the Mac and the plug it back in, the mouse works again. Small problem, but annoying. I'll bypassing the hub to see if that makes a difference but thought I'd check to see if anyone else has noticed this problem or what to do about it. My 2007 model of the MBP did not have this problem.

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Mighty Mouse won't scroll up, only down

I had this problem again tonight, but this time a restart didn't work.
So I took the mouse and turned it upside down, and rolled with pressure the scroll ball on my mouse pad. I rolled in all directions, then plugged it back in. It worked. Which leads me to believe that the first time it happened, the restart didn't have anything to do with it.
Before I rolled the scroll ball, I tried just unplugging and plugging back in, besides the restart. It seems that the scroll ball got "out of whack" as I now can here a a louder "zipping" sound as the scroll ball moves around.
I read some other posts about this problem, you might want to try rolling your ball around your mousepad and apply some pressure.
Bryan

<q>I read some other posts about this problem, you might want to try rolling your ball around your mousepad and apply some pressure.</q>
...and while you're at it, perform this action on a slightly moistened (I used Glassex) tissue. My MM wouldn't scroll down and I suspected dirt and grease from my finger to be the culprit. The cleaning solved the problem, and I even didn't unplug it.
There is KB article on this topic:
How to clean your Mighty Mouse.
JJ
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Mighty Mouse won't zoom?

I am now onto my 3rd Mighty Mouse in 4 months and I am am having problems with this one as well. Each time the problems have been different, but always centred around the scroll button.
This time round I can scroll, but have no zoom capability. No settings have been changed and the function has been working previously. I have checked system preferences and zoom is set with use of the ctrl button as normal, but nothing happens.
Can anybody help? Does the fault actually lie within my Imac and the mice have been fine and something in there needs fixed or do I need yet another new Mighty Mouse (Wireless version).

Hi tom101-
You must clean it: How to clean your Mighty Mouse
Luck-
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Mighty mouse won't connect after reboot

Hi all,
I updated my ~3 month old Mac Pro with the latest security update on 11/13/2009, and went home for the weekend. Returning on Monday 11/16/2009, I found that my mighty mouse would not connect to the Mac. I'd had intermittent connection issues previously, so I rebooted to no avail. Investigating further, I found that if I click on the Bluetooth menu and select the mighty mouse and click Connect, the Bluetooth icon flashes to connected briefly then back to unconnected. I can repeat this ad nauseum with no success. If I go into Mouse preferences and select Set Up Bluetooth Mouse, and then turn the mighty mouse off and then on to initiate pairing, the setup window will find the mouse. I then click Continue and it attempts to connect, but on the first try it always fails. If I then repeat the discovery and connection process again, it will pair successfully. After that the mouse works normally. However if I reboot my machine, the pairing is lost when Mac OS comes back up. This always happens with the mighty mouse, and maybe 50% of the time when I perform the same procedure with my wireless keyboard. I then have to go through the semi-successful pairing process again. I've tried various fixes including deleting the com.apple.Bluetooth.plist and rebooting, but nothing has solved this. This also happens if I try to use a magic mouse I bought for my Macbook Pro on the Mac Pro. I haven't had any bluetooth problems on the laptop.
This was addressed in another post but the original user marked it as answered after Apple had him pair the mouse with another computer and then with the first. Tried that too, doesn't work for me.
Ted

Hello d:
Try making the BT devices "favorites."
Go to system preferences>bluetooth. Highlight the device. Click on the little gear and "show more info." Click on the gear again and make the device a favorite.
Barry

Mighty Mouse Won't Scroll Down...

...even after I cleaned the wheel with a lightly-watered lint-free cloth. Obviously, I either didn't clean it right or something else is the problem. I also tried spinning the scroll wheel with the Mighty Mouse upside down. What could cause this to happen? What other things should I try?

Aaron don't be afraid to vigorously clean the trackball. It can take it. I turn the MM upside down on my jeans and run it around in all directions when it gets dirty inside. Also, some of the guys here are using alcohol, rather that water to clean it. You can also press your lips around the trackball and blow to get some of the lint buildup to dislodge.
I've actually taken my out-of-warranty MM apart to clean it (Operation Mouse......). It has tiny rollers that get gummed up with dirt, sweat, dead skin cells, body oils and that is what makes it stop working. The trackball slips instead of turning the rollers when they get dirty.

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that's about it. yesterday, i installed the new patch for microsoft office 2008, then had to restart the computer. upon restart, it asked for my password, which i entered. it came up as unrecognized. after several hours of troubleshooting, i saw it necessary to archive and install Leopard, thus starting over. so far, things have been fine for the most part, but the middle click (on the scroll wheel) doesn't open the dashboard, like it should. i can't find a setting anywhere to remedy the problem. Can anybody shed some light?
PS - i can still use the scroll wheel to scroll up and down, and in safari, clicking a link with the scroll wheel opens it in a new tab. Thanks

middle click doesn't open dashboard bu default. you have to set it to do so in system preferences->exposé&spaces->exposé.

Mighty Mouse Won't Click?

I recently upgraded my mouse to the Mighty Mouse (wired) and have been enjoying it. However, once last week, and again just now, the mouse pretty much flakes out, and I can't click on anything. I can use it for switching applications via Expose, but once I left click on something, that document, window, application goes grey and I can't click on anything. I've ended up force quitting my aps and hard restarting. I have to use the keyboard to force quit, if I try to click on the quit button, the force quit grays out too.
I've read some of the posts about Mighty Mice (Mouses? Meece?) freaking out and expose toggling on and off, but I didn't read anything about them ceasing to work like this. Anyone else out there had this issue?
Cheers,
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Ah! Sorry, I panicked and forgot to take the batteries out and plug them back in.
That solved the problem.
Thank you.

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