• Glenn Fleishman:
  My mother in law’s mouse stopped working. We put in a new mouse, plugged it into USB. It can scroll but not click. I’m baffled.

@GlennF My guess, something is being interpreted as a permanent mousedown. Check internal USB in system report?

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffporten Not permanent mousedown: I can remote access and it works fine with mouse plugged in.

@GlennF You can click through remote access, but not from the hardware? Check behind closet door for Rod Serling.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffporten I know, I know. Something died. I may actually need to reinstall the OS.

@GlennF How about disconnecting the mouse, and using universal access to click with the keyboard?

• Glenn Fleishman:
  @jeffporten Havne’t gotten to that point yet (I’m not on site)

@GlennF Reinstalling the OS is for losers. It will be much more satisfying to take the next three days of your time to solve this problem.

• Glenn Fleishman:
  It’s like Mac OS X lost the notion of clicking. Mouse pref pane has nothing weird. I even installed MSFT Mouse software for new mouse.

@GlennF If it were me, I’d be firing up AppleScript and using system events to fire clicks.

• Kevin van Haaren:
  @jeffporten @GlennF keyboard maestro one of your function keys to a mouse click

@kvanh @glennf I never use time-saving software when I can write an AppleScript in only six hours.