Apple Magic Trackpad issue: occasionally it interprets one-finger click as two-finger ("right") click

Solution 1:

Do you have checked this in the SystemPreferences -> Trackpad?

That's mean, than when you do a full-click on the right(left) bottom corner thats mean right-click. For the disable, simple uncheck.

Solution 2:

To resurrect this thread - this was driving me crazy. I thought my MacBook trackpad was failing but I recently went back to using a Magic Trackpad and found the same problem there. What happens is I mostly single click with my thumb but if any of my other fingers touched the trackpad it would fire off a right click.

I was hoping there was a solution where you could specify that the two contact points would have to be close to each other. I couldn't find anything like that.

But I did find MagicPrefs, which lets you customize gestures, taps, and clicks. What worked for me was to set the two-finger click to fire a right-click, and to set the applicable zone to the top 3/4 of the trackpad. This way thumb clicks, which are always at the bottom of the trackpad for me, didn't count as a double click and then fallover to a single click.