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Question

Lose Magic Mouse Cursor

Dec 7, 2011 12:47AM PST

I have experienced a perplexing problem with my Apple Magic Mouse. On occasion, I lose visibility of the mouse cursor. Mouse still 'works' but cursor becomes invisible. Only remedy seems to be to restart. Have tried turning mouse off and back on, plugging in a separate USB mouse, etc. If I 'blindly' move mouse to menu bar at top of screen, I get highlights on menu items and can 'feel' my way to the restart command. After restart, cursor is back, but what a pain!

Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?

Any ideas? Without a visible mouse cursor it's been difficult to do much active troubleshooting.

Hardware/Software:
27" iMac 'Late 2009' Intel Core i7 12GB RAM
OSX 10.7.2
Apple Magic Mouse

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Dec 7, 2011 3:19AM PST
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Lose Mouse Cursor
Dec 7, 2011 5:07AM PST

Thanks for the pointer to the Apple forum topic. I hadn't seen it. Although similar, I don't think it directly ties to my problem.

First, I'm running 10.7.2 Lion. Also, I never use Safari. My default browser is Firefox, which is up to date, as is my Flash add-in. And my problem seems to occur mostly at times when I'm not on the Internet, but in video editing and burning programs (e.g., Roxio Toast Titanium 11).

But thanks for the response.

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The problem as I see it
Dec 7, 2011 5:13AM PST

When I look at these problems I rarely find a direct discussion that matches the problem or app exactly. This is why I have to go with close enough and see if any of the ideas help.

If we are to look for exact ties we have to wait a long time or just head to the counter.
Bob

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Dec 7, 2011 8:26AM PST

R. Proffitt,

I fully understand and do absolutely appreciate your effort to push me in the right direction. That's the exact kind of guidance I was seeking. I worked 40 years as an engineer in the aerospace industry and understand that exact correlations are rare -- conceptual solutions usually lead to a fix.

The problem has not been enough of a burden so far that it would drive me to lug my 27" iMac to the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store. I just figured I'd float the problem out there and see if anyone had possibly discovered an easy fix.

Interestingly, I have the exact same environment on my MacBook Pro and have never experienced a disappearing cursor.

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Topped me.
Dec 7, 2011 8:30AM PST

Only 14 years then off to industrial electronics, software, reliability, and today some project for a firm writing code for a microchip.com PIC.

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/forums/viewthread/81793/ brings up something we are always running into.

-> Those other apps that folk install. I can't guess what apps folk have running.
Bob

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Dec 7, 2011 11:29PM PST

Thanks, Bob. The situation described in the post you linked sounds exactly like my problem. I'll have to see what apps I may have on my iMac that I don't have on my MacBook Pro. That could be the key. Thanks again,

Xavier