Fixing broken 3 & 4 finger gestures in Snow Leopard
Have you recently had your 3 and 4 finger gestures just stop working in Mac OSX Snow Leopard? Well I did today and after a bit of searching found three different fixes for them and decided to write them down here for future reference.
Solution 1: Shutdown
The first and simplest solution is just to turn off your computer and turn it back on. Restarting may work for you, but for me I had to completely shutdown and start back up.
This fixed the problem for me, but if it doesn’t for you, try these other solutions:
Solution 2: Create a new user account and switch to it
Some people have had success creating a new user account, logging off and then logging in as the new user. Once logged in as the new user the gestures started to work so they just logged back in to their main account, deleted the test user and went on their way.
Solution 3: Error check your hard disk
This solution was offered by a Mac technician named Majicman (see the 8th post down the page.)
The solution involves shutting down and then booting into single user mode, then checking the disk for errors and repairing them.
- Shutdown.
- Reboot while holding down Apple+S.
When you see the command line type:
fsck_hfs -f /dev/disk0s2Shutdown by typing:
shutdown -r nowReboot.
This, if not the other two solutions, should fix your 3 and 4 finger gestures problems.
I hope this write up was helpful!
Cheers.
