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Wanted to confirm this does work.
We have had a couple mice here that we've tossed in our box o' mice because the scrollball didn't work. Putting pressure on the ball when rolling did dislodge it. for about a week or two. It got to the point that we went back to our other generic mice with scroll wheels, which I still had to use anyway since I have a KVM on my desk and the ((IMO) not-so-)mighty mouse's scroll ball ONLY works when plugged straight into the powerbook.
OK, rantings aside, I did this to a mouse and it's working great so far. I guess see how long this method works. Closest I've tried prior to this was taking a piece of scotch tape, laying it on the table sticky side up, and with the mouse upside down, roll the ball on tape. If you recall, that's always been the recommended way of cleaning the tracking ball on mice, prior to led/laser mice *shudders at the thought*.
It took a few times before I could get the tape to feed in correctly. Like the author, nothing noticeable was on the tape. I was able to slowly rotate the tape around so I could move the tape in all directions. I was able to do this, moving it back and forth and rotating around (was able to go 180º in this time) for about 30 seconds before the tape started to rip and I had to feed it out.

I find a sightly wet finger works the best.
Dip your finger in water, roll it over the ball, and your mighty mouse will be back to work in a few seconds. No need to unplug, no need to dry. (just don't pour water on it.)
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Most importantly, make sure your three-year-old doesn't drool on it.

Lately I've found a good way to clean the ball, and now I do it every week or so to keep it healthy:
Take a wet wipe and moisten the ball a little, around it (roll and wipe), than place the mouse upside down on a piece of paper, that the ball will touch the paper, and gently roll the ball on that paper. Don't do it too hard because you might break something inside or disform the ball, but you'll see lines of dirt on the paper.
Now it'll be fine!

to add, that with the same wetwipe - you can clean the rest of the mouse, from the rest of day to day dirt. :)

https://downyup959.weebly.com/zzz-games-download.html. I found that returning it worked well.
By the end mine wasn't scrolling in either direction, tried cleaning it, did nothing, just returned it and got a cheap $5 optical mouse with a scroll wheel.

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I am a big fan of blu tac it cleans my keybord and I have used it to my Mighty Mouse scroll ball. it works fine just get a bit and and dab it on the ball jobs done.

blue-tack did the trick - well actually it was Patafix! So frustrating when you can only scroll in one direction :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Your tape 'thing' did the trick. It was not easy to do. But, once I got the tape threaded through; it dislodged big clumps of gunk. Afterwards, I wiped the scroll ball down with alcohol; and now my mouse works fine! Thanks, again!!!

Thanks - my scroll wheel would not work in one direction, but the wet finger trick worked great!

i use some rubbing alcohol on a cotton pad and really roll it around.

1. Find a completely blank, completely clean sheet of ordinary white printer paper. Any brand will do.
2. Lay the paper on any hard, flat surface. Unplug the mouse (or turn it off, in the case of wireless MM users), turn it upside down, and make sure the ball can still roll somewhat freely.
3. Press the scroll ball firmly against the sheet of paper, making sure that is the ONLY part of the mouse that touches the paper, and vigorously rub in all directions (up/down, side to side, figure eights, spirals, all that jazz) for one to three minutes. I recommend at least 90 seconds if the ball won't scroll at all in at least one direction, three or more minutes of it just won't budge, period.
4. Reconnect the mouse and test the scrolling by opening anything that has both a horizontal and vertical scroll bar, like iTunes. If it still feels like it's grinding or if it still won't scroll, repeat steps 2 and 3 until you get the desired result.

I tried the alcohol and it did not work for me. I tried the printer paper and it worked. Thanks a lot.

Starbucket mac os. Actually, Apple had very good reason for this change (no, it isn't backwards): It mimics the natural scrolling behavior found on the iPhone and iPad. That is, when you drag downwards, the PAGE moves downwards, showing more of the upper portion, and visa-versa. It makes total sense when using the iPhone/iPad, why would it suddenly be 'backwards' when using a desktop? Granted, it is different than we are used to, but that doesn't make it backwards. That said, I also disabled it given that I have a scroll wheel mouse, not a touchpad. When/if I get a touchpad, I'll re-enable the behavior.

From reading around the web, it seems that this setting might be in the Mouse pane of System Prefs for some people; for others, it is not showing up at all.
500gb external hard drive for macbook pro. On my late '09 11' MacBook Air, I found the setting in Mouse, and it reads: 'Move content in the direction of finger movement when scrolling or navigating'. I unchecked it to get normal scrolling back.

The setting exists both under the Mouse and the Trackpad panes. Assignment 1 mac os. However, it depends on which devices you are using.
If you have a trackpad, then change it there, if you have a muse, under the mouse. If you have both (which is readily possible on a laptop or with a magic trackpad) then you can possibly have different settings for each, but that could be rather awkward.

I have been using the iPad for a year so I found that with a Magic Mouse the default Lion setting easier to get used to. I just think about pushing a piece of paper up the screen. When I use that analogy it makes more sense. It was a little funny for the first hour but now I am used to it. Note that Apple considers this the 'natural' way to scroll.

Maybe I am wrong but the speed translation (moving your fingers on the trackpad x mm or turning your mouse scroll wheel by x degrees moves things by y pixels) seems to be constant for the scrollbar. But since more content in a scrollable view means moving the scrollbar moves the content more, this inverse scrolling has a highly variable speed translation (quite the opposite to iOS devices where the speed translation was always unity).

Give it a try 'the new way'. My understanding early on was that there were arguments about which way/how the windows should move. Are you moving the 'paper' or are you moving the 'viewport'. The viewport won out.
Try it. The feedback is so instantaneous that you'll correct what you are doing without even thinking about it.

Yes, it's not hard to get used to, but when you're in a multi-platform environment it's much harder to do the switch. Until I get rid of my Windows machines this is going to have to go back to regular mode.
I also can't seem to change the mouse wheel independently, possibly because I have a Logitech mouse. If I could do that I'd find it much easier to adapt.

Alas, if you don't have a trackpad, the trackpad preferences don't work and you can't fix the scrolling direction. I can change the scroll direction on my four-year-old MacBook but not my trackpadless iMac. That matters because trackpad scrolling is used by many scrolling mouse, including my Microsoft one. I suspect the number of Macs using scrolling mice must run in the millions. They are out of luck.
Let's hope Apple fixes that in 10.7.1. There should be two scroll direction preferences, one for mice in the Mouse preferences and one for trackpads in the Trackpad preferences. Many users might want to make each work differently.
Anyone know if there's a command line way to fix this?

You don't need to have a Trackpad in order to see the Trackpad settings pane to change the setting. The scroll direction is available under the Mouse settings.
What bugs me (and I'd read about this beforehand but had to see it to believe it) is that you cannot set the Mouse and Trackpad to have different scroll direction behaviors, i.e. behaviors you might think appropriate to each device. Whichever one you set last (Mouse or Trackpad) will determine how both devices operate.

I'm not on my Lion machine right now, so I can't tell you exactly where to look, but I can confirm there is definitely a preference in there for the mouse as well as for the trackpad. They're linked, so you can't have one set one way and the other the opposite, but you can at least re-reverse your mouse's scroll ball.

If you have a mouse, it's at the very top of the Mouse settings pane and is worded differently.

defaults write -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false

This change makes so much sense, especially if you are using a multi-touch trackpad (multi-touch is the new focus of interacting with OS X).
'Scrolling' is really 'dragging'. A page is an object just as text and graphics are objects on a page. If you drag a graphic on a page, you logically expect that object to move in the same direction that you are dragging. not the opposite direction. The same applies to the page itself. If you drag the body of a page, it should move in the same direction, not opposite (as it used to do).
Scroll bars have been 'demoted' in Lion. They are invisible unless you either drag a page or move the cursor over a window edge. The scroll bars are no longer the 'object'.
Although this is a change from previous versions of Mac OS X, it is a change for the better, and it makes perfect sense.
If you are using a previous version of Mac OS X, and are thinking of moving to Lion, you should download a free application called 'Scroll Reverser'. It will help untrain you from dragging pages the old way (in the opposite direction), and train you on the new, logical way so that you are ready to roll when you upgrade to Lion.

After trying the new way for a bit it clicked for me and actually feels a lot more natural then the old way. Especially when thinking about other gestures like pinching which work from the point of view of the contents not the viewport.

I had to uninstall Intellipoint (Microsoft mouse software) before the option to disable reverse scrolling appeared. After disabling the option and reinstalling Intellipoint all is well.

I want to learn the new way, but since my employer forces me to use Windows, we need a hint to reverse scrolling in MS Windows :P

I have installed Scrollvetica to practice Lion's 'reversed' scrolling while I await my new iMac. After 1 day, its not quite there but as a regular iPad and iPhone user I don't think I'll take long to adapt.
My wife has Lion installed and first opened the new iPad-like Mail. She didn't even notice the scroll change - it looked like a iPad so she treated it like one.
For us 'Natural' scrolling feels natural.

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Like other people, the option to change the reverse scrolling did not appear in the mouse pref pane on my iMac and I do not have a track pad.
How I fixed this was by unplugging the Microsoft mouse I use and plugging in an Apple mouse. The option was in in the mouse preferences pane as soon as I opened it.
Upgrading to the latest Intelipoint (version 8) drivers did not help as I tried that first.

If you have a non-Apple scroll mouse, this option does not appear in the Mouse preference pane. It's possible to reverse the scroll direction using the defaults command in the Terminal.
defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false
You'll need to log out for the change to take effect.
Credit: The Mac Admin
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Someone suggested: 'You don't need to have a Trackpad in order to see the Trackpad settings pane to change the setting. The scroll direction is available under the Mouse settings. '
Unfortunately, as someone else has noted, what appears on these panels is very hardware specific. On my late 2006 iMac the Mouse preferences screen is sparse. It only has adjustments for tracking speed and double-click speed, along with radio buttons for setting the left or right button as the primary mouse button. It's so bare, I can't miss anything else.
This is interesting. I just activated my Microsoft Bluetooth mouse. Now, I get a more complex Mouse preferences that does include the shadowy 'Move content' checkbox.
The good news is that I can turn Bluetooth off and, although the 'Move content' checkbox disappears, the Preference sticks. My iMac is normal again and just like my MacBook. Yeah!
I've nothing against Apple's rationale for changing trackpad behavior. I just believe that it's more intuitive to have mouse scrolling behave differently. Users should be able to set both behaviors separately.

This is interesting. My Trackpad panel does not say either of those things. It has a radio button list on the left and a video display area on the right. The top choice under the tab 'Scroll and Zoom' says 'Scroll direction: natural. Content tracks finger movement' not 'When using gestures to scroll or navigate, move content in the direction of finger movement.'
Additionally, there is no 'Ignore accidental trackpad input,' choice anywhere on the panel. BTW I have a Summer 2009 Macbook Pro 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

The new way of scrolling is all good if you're only going to work on Macs running Lion. For the trackpad it certainly makes perfect sense and the two-finger scrolling is unique to Macs anyway so there is no potential for confusion on PC laptops. But for a mouse it is different. The concept of mapping the top of the scroll wheel to a movement in the same way as swiping fingers over a trackpad is less obvious to start with. But I could get used to it, if it weren't for the fact that I have to work five days a week on a PC with an almost identical scroll wheel mouse and I also occasionally boot my Mac into Boot Camp.
The end result is that I scroll in the wrong direction in all operating systems about half of the time. I really would appreciate a separate setting for the mouse and trackpad in Lion. Or, a simple way to reverse the scroll direction in other operating systems :)

I feel the need to comment here. I'll preface this by saying I was a human computer interaction (e.g. usability) researcher for years, not that I am the foremost expert but I do have some background. I think there are a couple reasons why this 'reversed scrolling' is a mistake (my opinion only).
First of all the gesture associated with the scrollbar is different from a touch screen interface where you grab and drag. It would correspond more closely to clicking a scrollable screen with a mouse and pulling in an up or down direction. However when you use the trackpad to scroll, there is no grab (click). Intuitively you are controlling the scrollbar, which should operate in the reverse direction.
The second reason is that it simply feels wrong because we are used to the opposite paradigm. I'm not saying there is no room for innovation in interface design. But, why do you think the QWERTY keyboard never changes. Photoshop for mac free trial. It is not necessarily the best design, but it is what we are all used to. And, there is something to be said for consistency.
All that said, Apple usually gets it right. And, one thing I think they did do right was to make this a user preference. So, even the try to change the world, they let you change it back if you prefer.
Just my 2 cents worth.

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The reason reversing the scrolling is silly is because a touch screen scrolls something different than a trackpad scrolls.
The touch screen (ipad, iphone) moves the content under the glass.
The trackpad moves the screen (a window onto the content, sortof), even if you are only scrolling just one of the windows. This mimics the scroll bar behavior of old (errr. that is still there on the screen).

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Many, many, many thanks for this post. I had the same problem too and it was driving me insane! Note: If you do not have a trackpad, then click on the Mouse button in Preferences and untick 'natural scrolling' box right at the top of the window. That will restore the old way of scrolling. Now I just have to unlearn my new habit. Amazing how fast habits form.