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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / February 2005Right-Click Not Working
I just received my Mini yesterday and did a transfer of information from my powerbook via firewire. All looks good, seems good, but there is strange behavior happening when I use right-click. I have a 2-button, scrollwheel, Microsoft optical mouse that worked just fine with the powerbook & ibook (also running 10.3.7). Right-clicking on the desktop or anywhere else gave me a contextual menu. For some reason right-clicking on the Mini, in 10.3.7, in any app or on the desktop, causes all open windows to blank out and all desktop icons (not those on the dock) to disappear for about 1 second then a gigantic Finder window appears. I've searched every preference I can think of but am finding nothing that turns right-click on or off. I installed the mouse's cd after seeing this behavior even though it hasn't changed anything. Searching the web gave me nothing new to go on. I'm thinking something in the transfer of data & apps from the pb to the mini caused a corruption somewhere. Permission verified & repaired correctly, all software available for update has been installed & the computer restarted several times.  SignatureTara Sorry, one more very strange behavior. An eject symbol appears in all finder windows next to my home folder. I have never seen that before and its a bit unsettling. I don't know if the folder would actually eject but that's a dangerous little oddity IMO. SignatureTara > I just received my Mini yesterday and did a transfer of information from my > powerbook via firewire. All looks good, seems good, but there is strange [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > correctly, all software available for update has been installed & the > computer restarted several times. What you're seeing is Finder quitting and restarting. Given the circumstances, the high-likelihood candidate is a corrupted, incompletely installed, or malfunctioning 3rd-party context menu plugin. Check in /System/Library/Contextual Menu Items, /Library/Contextual Menu Items and ~/Library/Contextual Menu Items and see if moving them in and out solves the problem. When/if you find the culprit, reinstall it directly. You'll have to restart the Finder to make changes to these folders take, unfortunately. Easiest/cleanest way is the hold down option while clicking the Finder icon in the dock. The menu should have a relaunch command in it. SignatureChange account to gw when responding by mail. > What you're seeing is Finder quitting and restarting. Given the > circumstances, the high-likelihood candidate is a corrupted, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > out solves the problem. When/if you find the culprit, reinstall it > directly. Thank you! It was the Stuffit plug-in located in library/contextual menu items. SignatureTara > just received my Mini yesterday and did a transfer of information > from my > powerbook via firewire. All looks good, seems good, but there is > strange > behavior happening when I use right-click. > I have a 2-button, scrollwheel, Microsoft optical mouse that worked > just > fine with the powerbook & ibook (also running 10.3.7). > Right-clicking on > the desktop or anywhere else gave me a contextual menu. > For some reason right-clicking on the Mini, in 10.3.7, in any app or > on the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Finder > window appears. > I've searched every preference I can think of but am finding nothing > that [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > gave me > nothing new to go on. > I'm thinking something in the transfer of data & apps from the > pb to the > mini caused a corruption somewhere. Permission verified & repaired > correctly, all software available for update has been installed > & the > computer restarted several times. > -- > Tara How do you like the mini? * posted via http://mymac.ws > How do you like the mini? I like it alot after I did my standard preference tweaking. I see no difference in performance/speed between the 1.42ghz, 1mb ram mini and my 1.5ghz, 1.25mb ram powerbook. The mini fits perfectly under the studio display I have and is quiet as a mouse. The only time any noise is made is when the superdrive is in use. Beware though, Apple made it *very* difficult to get inside the mini. Putty knives are needed as there are no screws to remove any covers (I purchased & installed my own memory upgrade to save a few bucks hence the need to get inside). A big pat on the back goes to Apple as I ordered it two weeks ago and was told it would be 3 weeks until it was ready to ship and another week til delivery which would have meant the mini should arrive at the end of next week. Instead it arrived on Wednesday. Apple also sent me a notice via email saying that as they'd just lowered the price of the mini they would give me the new pricing even though I ordered it under the original pricing. SignatureTara > Beware though, Apple made it *very* difficult to get inside the > mini. Putty [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > to get > inside). So I've read. This doesn't bother me too much. All the pictures on the net make it look fairly easy. * posted via http://mymac.ws |
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