From July 2008 archives - mighty mouse stops scrolling

Back in July last year, we wrote how our Apple Mac experience was cut short when the wireless might mouse stopped scrolling.

In case you missed it or you've been recently affected, here's how we solved it:

http://purple13.blogspot.com/2008/07/mighty-mouse-stops-scrolling-scrolling.html

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Mighty Mouse stops scrolling, scrolling, scrolling...

Horror of horrors - just a few weeks into my Mac experience and my Mighty Mouse suddenly stopped scrolling downwards.

I replaced the batteries - no good, I restarted my Mac - no good - O.K now we're worried.

Then i typed in 'mighty mouse won't scroll down' into Google and wow - this is a common problem with a simple solution.

The problem comes from a dirty tracker ball (the little grey blimp on the top of the mouse where you'd normally expect to find a great big click wheel).

The solution - take a dry lint free cloth and holding the mouse upside down, roll the ball with the cloth.

It took me several goes at this - I was on the point of saying it can go back to Apple, so stick with it.

Now my desk isn't a dirty one - quite the opposite and I don't eat and 'mouse' so no food debris there! Anyway, I fell foul so if it happens to you, then you now know what to do.

Oh well, no excuse now - back to the Fabulous Photo Gifts web updates.......