Mouse Moves Eratically (Mountain Lion)

I just updated to Mountain Lion (OS10.8) and my mouse (bluetooth) scrolls in differedt directions on separate pages. One time scrolling top to bottom moves the screen down; on next page mouse scoll moves screen up. How do I fix this?
RicZ

Check: System Preferences - Mouse - Scroll direction: natural = Unchecked

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I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installed. For me to use XCode 4.5, I must have 10.7 or later. What is the best way to go ahead? Should I install OS X Lion and then move to Mountain Lion, or can I straight away install latest Mountain Lion, i.e. 10.8.2

You can directly install Mountain Lion 10.8.0 to 10.6.8, and then apply the 10.8.2 Update.
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Why do we have to buy mountain lion when we bought lion? Others who didn't purchase lion don't have to pay for it to move to mountain lion

why do we have to buy mountain lion when we bought lion? Others who didn't purchase lion don't have to pay for it to move to mountain lion.

As far as I know the only people not having to pay for Mountain Lion are the ones that have purchased a apple computer after the 4th of june or something. These people get a free upgrade. All others will have to pay for a copy of Mountian Lion.
Do you maybe have a source, which states that others don't have to pay for it, where people that have bought Lion do have to pay?
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Wes

Bluetooth mouse alternate click mountain lion

My magic mouse (bluetooth) right click (alternate click) stopped working after upgrading to Mountain Lion. I tried the following: verified that the mouse settings were correct, rebooted, and rebooted with shift key to be in safe mode. I tried logging in as a different user on my iMac.
I tried using a USB mouse and the right click worked, so the problem seems to be associated with the bluetooth magic mouse.
The mouse is not at fault: I rebooted from a Snow Leopard hard drive and the right click worked fine. I also tried the magic mouse with another mac and the mouse worked fine.
My guess is that there is a library/preferences file with an incorrect or corrupted setting. If so, which one (e.g., com.apple.Bluetooth.plist, com.apple.Bluetooth.plist.lockfile, other ...)? And is it OK to delete the file?

Bump.

Can I move downloaded mountain lion to different machine?

Weird internet connection at office (DNS server settings or some other gremlin that's beyond my expertise) won't let computers download Mountain Lion from App Store. Other apps are fine, could be a size issue not sure. Anyway, I downloaded to another machine using another internet connection (different location). Can I move that download to different machine? How?

Yes as long as these are both your computers. Transfer target disk mode, USB flash drive, external HD, DVD, Dropbox, etc
Are the computer close by and portable or at a distance?? This might dictate how you move your download.

Do I need to download lion to move onto mountain lion?

I am downloading snow leopard right now, and I was wondering if I need to download lion before I download mountain lion? Can I just go straight to mountain lion?

You don't need Lion 10.7 but do need to update to 10.6.8. If you're installing it from a retail DVD and not using a copy on your organization's LAN (if any), it'll be either 10.6 or 10.6.3.
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Cannot select and move in mountain lion

I am running 10.8.4 on an early 2009 15'' MBP, and I have been having issues where I cannot select an object (file or folder) and move it. This is affecting my other programs, for example, i find that I cannot select and move cursor in Maya.
Not sure why, has anyone seen this before? and can I fix it somehow? I tried restarting my computer multiple times but the problem presists.
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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then copy it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
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whats happened to magic mouse gestures on mountain lion...i can't even scroll up or down a web page with my magic mouse now....

OK. I found the fix for the problem!
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I have lost the "two-finger swipe" back to previous screen function of my Magic Mouse after downloading Mountain Lion. The vertical scroll function still works, only in the opposite direction. Weird! Any ideas?

You must have upgraded from Snow Leopard. The scroll direction has changed to "natural" where you push content in the direction you want it to go, as thought you had you finger on the screen. You can change it back the other direction In System Preferences > Mouse > uncheck Scroll direction: natural.
The swipe back a page is now a one finger swipe. You can change that as well in System Preferences > Mouse > More gestures tab. Click the disclouse triangle for the choices.

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Hi,
Had to have new hard drive installed a few days ago. System was "upgraded" to Mountain Lion. I had a backup from TimeMachine but for whatever reason, when configuring hard drive it would not see my external hard drive so I had to restore applications manually (read one by one) after "blank canvas" configuration. Now I find out all my powerpc-based applications wont work because Apple has not renewed licensing for Rosetta (info gathered from Communities). My powerpc applications are Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Microsoft Office 2011, turboCad, etc.
I found out I have two options:
1) Erase hard drive and Restore from TimeMachine to previous hard drive contents from 10 days ago, which run on Snow Leopard (which I had downloaded, so no disks). Will this work?
2) Install Parallels 7 or VM firmware, and somehow install Snow Leopard there and run my powerpc applications from there. How to do this I have no idea...
Long term:
If Apple will never restore Rosetta or powerpc capabilities, should I go with option 2 and get on with the "new world"? I'm not too technically savvy and not sure how I can do this on my own... so would need to go see the Geniuses for this, I guess... But I'm not sure what the advantages of Mountain Lion are! So far, I dont see much, and I am not sure I would know how to maintain a "Parallel PC universe" without doubling everything.
Since I'm not sure of any advantages to Mountain Lion, I should maybe go back to my Snow Leopard version, then? but I am not sure how, exactly, without loosing everything once more.
Of course, if someone knows there are powerpc capabilities for Mountain Lion in the future, then I am all set, right? Does anyone know how Apple or Microsoft plan to "help" us poor souls who choose Mountain Lion without being aware of these issues?
(note: I have moved three times in the past two years and cannot get my hands on my iWorks CDs or my Microsoft Office 2011 CDs)
Any recommendations?

Dropping Rosetta was a technical decision. As stated, Apple has traditionally only supported it's current and last OS versions.
There are tons of advantages to updating to Mountain Lion, assuming your hardware supports it. Look HERE for details and HERE for hardware compatibility and instructions on how to upgrade properly.
Alansky is correct that this is not new news as well. He also is correct in saying that Rosetta will never again be supported. If I remember correctly, the last PowerPC version of Photoshop is CS2 released in 2005. That's 7 years and 4 major releases ago. Sorry to say, but it is time to bit the bullet, move to Mountain Lion and update your legacy software.
I am using Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 and it runs fine on Mountain Lion 10.8.
You can certainly install and run Snow Leopard in a Parallels partition but I don't recommend it. Take a look HERE for details.
Not having your Office install disks sounds suspicious but we'll assume that you have a legal copy. In that case, you should be abe to contact Microsoft HERE for assistance in retrieving your product key and getting a download link.

Un-split the hard drive and re-download Mountain Lion on my second laptop

I have two partitions on the hard drive of my MacBook Air; one has Snow Leopard (Mac OS X, 10.6.8) and the other has Mountain Lion (Mac OS X, 10.8.3). As I start saving more files on my MBA, I start having less free space to work with. When I purchased the Mountain Lion, I didn't purchase the CD version; I downloaded from Apple's site. Now I need to un-split my MacBook Air, keeping the Snow Leopard on it and move the Mountain Lion to my MacBook Pro. How do I do that? Any suggestions? Thanks!

download Mountain Lion again from the App Store - once the download is complete, it will try to install - cancel the install and create a Mountain Lion USB installer.
http://lifehacker.com/5928780/how-to-burn-os-x-mountain-lion-to-a-dvd-or-usb-fla sh-drive
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I have 10.5.8 OS for my macbook pro and want to move to mountain lion. It looks like i need to upgarde to snow leapord first? Can anyone confirm?

I suggest you check if your machine is capable of upgrading. It needs to be a Mac computer with an Intel processor.   Read the specs.
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard -Read the Technical Specifications
Once you have upgraded to Snow Leopard, if your upgrade took you to 10.6.3 you will need to apply the Combo updater.   Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 and follow with a software update to pick up the most recent security updates.
To upgrade past Snow Leopard.   For Mountain Lion, the minimum specs are as follows ... technical specification

To upgrade to Mountain Lion... or not?

My iMac 27" (November 2011) is still running Snow Leopard. My MacBook Pro which is newer, runs Mountain Lion.
The iMac is my main production system (Illustrator, Photoshop and MS Office) and I have put off upgrading the OS in case it goes pearshaped.
For me, Snow Leopard has become the Mac equivalent of Windows XP SP2 [for those who know The Other Side]. I know it is solid, and don't really want to have problems after an upgrade, though I'd like to be able to upgrade to a solid up-to-date system if I can.
Mountain Lion should be reasonably mature by now. I have Time Machine running backups for my present system.
Any thoughts as to whether I should stick with Snow Leopard, or shift to Mountain Lion?
If I try the upgrade and there are problems, what should have I done beforehand to ensure I can revert to Snow Leopard?
Finally, I have iDVD on Snow Leopard. Will it still be there after the upgrade, if I decide to move to Mountain Lion?
Apologies if this is something already covered - I've had a look, but not found any concise reply anywhere else.

Since your iMac is your main production system, and not knowing what applications are installed on the Mac Book Pro, check to make sure your applications are compatible. Application Compatibility
It is really your choice. I have Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion installed on my iMac (two partitions).
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I would make a duplicate copy of iDVD, just in case, and move it elsewhere. You can also retsore from your backup.
Information on what it would take to revert back to Snow Leopard.
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