Track pad messed up my views

I was using my trackpad and scrolling down, not sure what I did but the windows that open are huge and the drop down menu at the top is a large font. What did I do? How do I fix?

Please learn to use the gestures your Magic Trackpad has, you can learn about them by going to System Preferences - Trackpad.
I suspect all you did was double tap with two fingers. Try doing it again and the zoom should turn off.

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I have an Imac in my bedroom and apple tv hooked to my big screen in my living room. When I select mirror Imac on the Imac to view on the big screen in living room, can I get a wireless keyboard and track pad to control Imac from living room?

I do something like that, and can confirm 20 feet won't be a problem. More than 30 or so might be.

With snow leopard, basic keyboard functions like double clicking on a desktop item now require me to hold control and then click on the track pad. I'm trying to recall, I seem to remember Leopard allowing you to double click items to open them?

I notice in iPhoto that if I used to be able to single/double click on a photo to view it but now if I click CONTROL and then the TRACK PAD, the options don't allow me to open JUST that photo in nearly full page format. Any suggestions?

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Hi,
I enjoy a Mac Mini (early 2009) hooked to a 50 inch plasma and surf from my couch, stream etc... We browse with Safari 5.X and enjoyed the new Magic Track Pad with Snow Leopard. You could zoom / scale Safari with Snow Leopard beautifully, with a pinch out on the trackpad, same function as aA option on the browser task bar.
Now with Lion, the pinch to zoom feature zooms but doesn't scale the safari window the same way aA option used to. In lion a pinch out to zoom in will push a significant part of the browser screen off / out of view.
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Thanks,
H

You can see in that screenshot that a lot of browser.gesture.pinch prefs have an empty string as their value and thus won't have any effect.
You can restore some zoom feature by modifying the values of the related prefs on the about:config page via the right-click context menu.
* browser.gesture.pinch.in -> cmd_fullZoomReduce
* browser.gesture.pinch.in.shift -> cmd_fullZoomReset
* browser.gesture.pinch.out -> cmd_fullZoomEnlarge
* browser.gesture.pinch.out.shift -> cmd_fullZoomReset
You may want to toggle this pref (I don't know what effect this has):
* browser.gesture.pinch.latched -> false
*pinchy: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pinchy/

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You might want to investiage what the local laws are regarding defective goods and 'fit for use' definitions on warranties etc. Consumer Protection can be a useful tool to use or bargain with if needed ...

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hi there.
I purchases my macbook on black friday. I love it. I used one about 14 yrs ago..and some things have changed. it is much easier to navigate.
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trackpad
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thanks for your help

Should it go gray after you first empty the caches as you just emptied it and there should be nothing left to empty?
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Also is there a folder that contains the files, so that you can physically view if there are any that have not been delieted.
Yes there is…
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… where ~ means your home directory.

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I'm having some problems with my new computer, and I can't seem to find help, hopefully you guys can help.
I have this problem where I accidently strike some keys (I'm a sloppy typer) and I get these weird symbols on my keybord (their the ones in blue, and no matter what combination of keys I press, I can't seem to reset it unless I restart my computer.
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After that appears, my tracking pad locks and I can't use it at all, but the keyboard works (I have to restart my computer to get the tracking pad to work).
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Hi,
The symbols in Blue may be being activated by pressing the fn key - the next time this happens, try pressing the fn key again to see if this toggles back to normal keyboard entry.
Regarding the touchpad, the Orange light you see coming on ( and the touchpad turning off ) is probably caused by double tapping the top left corner of the Touchpad. Double tapping this area again should toggle the Touchpad back on.
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Track pad on MacBook Pro 15"

The track pad on my MacBook Pro 15" (Late 2009) when trying to drag and drop files stays continously selected and never lets me drop them into the new folder. This all started happening after install of the OS X Mountain Lion.
I have already tried the universal access route by enabling dragging but it doesn't seem the same way as it used to be. Because even with that then when I select words while typing, it like locks and drags and messes that up, and if I do it without drag lock then it goes back to not working at all, and stays continsouly selected.
Also have tried Disk Repair Permissions.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
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I have a magic track pad on iMac.its works correctly,but when I try to change setting of track pad in system pereferenc, after clicking of track pad icon, the window closed and nothing appeared for change.what should I do?

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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
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from the menu bar.
Enter the name of the crashed application or process (System Preferences) in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports for crash reports related to the process. The report name starts with the name of the crashed process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents — again, the text, not a screenshot. In the interest of privacy, I suggest that, before posting, you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if it’s present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

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Hi guy,
After lending my mouse to a friend, I needed to use my track pad again for my iMac. However, I found out that the track pad will not connect to my iMac. After messing around with it I realized that the track pad will only connect and pair with my iMac when I place my track pad so close to iMac that its pretty much touching it. I wonder if it is something wrong with the bluetooth hardware inside my iMac? I tried some solutions that I found online but they do not seem to work.

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Troubleshooting wireless mouse and keyboard issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3048
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My mac air book track pad is so sensitive that you hardley have to touch it and it will change pages

Welcome to Apple Discussions
Have you attempted to adjust the trackpad sensitivity using System Preferencs:Trackpad
Open System Preferences.
Choose View > Trackpad, or click the Trackpad icon.
To change your tracking speed and click settings, click the Point & Click tab. Then, move the Tracking slider to adjust how fast the arrow moves across your screen. Move it left to slow it down, or right to speed it up. You can also enable secondary-click by selecting the "Secondary click" checkbox. This lets you open shortcut menus by pressing two fingers, or tapping t the trackpad surface.
To change your scroll and zoom settings, click the Scroll & Zoom tab. From here you can enable and disable scroll and zoom gestures.
To change other gesture settings, click the More Gestures tab. You can enable and disable gestures for swipe, Notification Center, Mission Control, App Exposé, Launchpad, and desktop.

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I recently got a Macbook Air and tried using the track pad for the standard finger click options however it doesn't work/respond.
Viewed the "how to demo" fromt eh track pad options, tried those and it is still not reponding.
I used to have an old Macbook in which i enabled the finger click and worked fine.
Is there a set up that I don't know about?
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I have a mac air 2011 ill give more specs when i get home.
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Try Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

Track pad messed up my views

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