Swiping is backwards?

Is it me, or does the 3 finger swipe function work backwards? If I'm swiping backwards through web pages, or flicking through photos in iPhoto, I think the natural motion would be left to right, as though I'm flicking through pages of a magazine. Even the little demo video in the settings looks weird. Is there some way to modify this?

Karth - I'm not saying that you find it difficult to use. In fact, I would never make the assumption for any individual about their ability to use a system. What I'm trying to ascertain is Apple's rationale for configuring the the gestures as they have done. iPhone aside, let me try to clarify my example. Zooming and 2D scrolling in a PDF. When a user 2D scrolls, they move their fingers in the direction they wish to see. Down-right lets them look in the lower-right of the page. Fine. The underlying principle here is the direction of finger motion is influences the direction of viewing directly. If this basic principle is applied to zooming, a user would take two fingers and move them closer together. Since the fingers are getting closer together, presumably the viewing area would get smaller, and thus zooming in would occur. This does not happen. Unless someone can help me understand this in a different way, I'm seeing two fundamentally different approaches to multi-touch design. Again, I'm trying to understand the underlying principles used in the design. I am not implying or asserting that the interface is or is not intuitive for you to use. But since Apple did not include your great feature (i.e., preferences to reverse/modify multi-touch gestures), I'm trying to wrap my head around their thinking. Any thoughts to this end?
(BTW - the example of an attached mouse does not support your argument, IMO. The mouse controls a pointer that interacts with GUI elements. Multi-touch aims to allow the user to interact with the GUI elements more directly. To illustrate: with a mouse, if you wish to scroll DOWN on a PDF in Preview, you can "grasp" the document and move the mouse UP. Multi-touch requires the user to move two fingers in the DOWN direction.)

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from time to time the forward/backward swiping functionality of my magic mouse does not work (The scrolling works though). Disconnecting and reconnecting does not do the trick. So I guess it might be a software problem. Restarting the iMac does not always help at once. After a couple of times it will work though again.
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Bjoern

your answer should be here.
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So i was in the same boat, and I literally just figured it out like 5 mins ago.
Go into system preferences>Trackpad, click on the tab for More Gestures
Its the very first option you come to on that page, Its 'Swipe between Pages', I was used to 3 fingers left or right.
Ahh back to normal...On to other problems with Lion. Good Luck and I hope this helped.

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This is a problem in Mavericks:
If I open a Finder window and then navigate through Folders, I am unable to move backwards (or forwards) within the directory structure using the three finger swipe gesture. This appears to be disabled in Finder, but it does work in e.g., Safari (for moving backwards and forwards to different webpages).
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If I open a Finder window and then navigate through Folders, I am unable to move backwards (or forwards) within the directory structure using the three finger swipe gesture. This appears to be disabled in Finder, but it does work in e.g., Safari (for moving backwards and forwards to different webpages).
I have attempted rebooting, rebooting with PRAM reset.
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Since upgrading to Yosemite, it appears that the swiping is far too sensitive. When I just try to scroll, I frequently end up going backward. I'm scrolling straight up or down and the little "back" arrow pops up on the screen. Sometimes I can see it and stop it before it goes backward, but this is highly frustrating when I end up going back instead of just scrolling down. (This is not 100% of the time and because it seems random, it's increasingly frustrating. If anything, it seems to happen more often during quick scrolling.)
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Something happened to my left/right swiping

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That did help. At least I got forward/backward swiping back.
That being said, forward/backwards swiping is now done with 3 fingers and swiping between full screen apps is with 4 fingers. The part that is weird is that I used to be able to, in Lion as when it was first installed, swipe between full screen apps with 3 fingers and standard foward/backwards with 4 fingers. It's just odd that even if I select full screen app switching with 3 fingers, it continues to do it with 4 fingers as well. It's almost like some configuration setting somewhere is stuck and there's no way to reverse it again.
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