El Capitan and Microsoft Mouse (IntelliPoint) Not Working

Anonymous
2015-09-11T14:32:37+00:00

After installing the El Capitan GM, the forward/back buttons (side buttons, 4 & 5) on my Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000 are only registering as left mouse buttons. The most recent driver, Microsoft Mouse 8.2 is installed and shows up in the System Preferences, but appears to not be functioning. MicrosoftMouseHelper is in the login items. Suggestions?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-05-19T00:31:14+00:00

    No dice on the script. All paths ok. Crontab ok. Made the script in vi. Triple checked everything. No go. The mouse is working with Apple's own drivers, but not the Intellipoint drivers (tracking, speed, button assignments all not working).

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-27T23:08:04+00:00

    I tried this, with no success.  I'm wondering if there is something else missing here.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-15T17:04:16+00:00

    Hi!

    This fix actually caused major issues external USB volumes FYI mainly with FCP7

    in a OS X El Captain non admin user Final Cut Pro 7 editing environment..

    Errors reported from within FCP that it could no read or write to the USB Volume containing the Cashe / Render and files needed for editing any given protect.

    Every Possible permissions modification was implemented and it wasn't until the csrutil was put back to "disabled status" that FCP 7 was able to access the External USB RAID enclosure...

    I think MS is trying to say it's time to buy a new mouse.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-04T15:07:40+00:00

    I don’t have a MS keyboard. You might look to see if there is a “helper” command for the KB and just add another line to the mouse script with the same nohup syntax.

    Randy

    I checked and found my keyboard helper file in a similar location.  I made a 2nd line in the shell script for it with the file path:

    nohup /Library/PreferencePanes/Microsoft\ Keyboard.prefPane/Contents/Resources/MicrosoftKeyboardHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/MicrosoftKeyboardHelper > /dev/null 2>&1 &

    I renamed my script file from "mouse" to "DesktopSet" since it now includes keyboard and mouse, and made the corresponding changes in the crontab. 

    I want to thank Randy for the clarifications. I hadn't quite realized that his shell script ended with the one (now two) nohup lines and that "crontab -e" was the Terminal command to edit the existing crontab, and ":wq!" the vi command to save the additions and re-enter the normal Terminal mode. I had originally thought the shell script included all the cron stuff as well. I am still not sure about the "exit" command below the 2 shell script lines but I believe it is extraneous if I use a text editor rather than vi to create the script. Hope I have all this right, now.

    I still won't try this unless my current configuration becomes unstable again because it has been too much work getting the keyboard and mouse to behave.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-03T21:30:48+00:00

    Tried your solution, but sadly the mouse still doesn't show up in the "System preferences > Microsoft Mouse" panel.

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