MacBook Pro ... Jumping Cursor

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

I have been doing more documents lately. The cursor, in the middle of typing, positions itself on another line in text previously typed. Has anyone else had this happen?

I made an appointment at the store for next week. LM

TeriK · ‎02-24-2016

Yes....mine has also been doing that....Grrrrr. Please let me know what they say about it.

Sweetbay magnolia · ‎04-14-2013

Hi, @Lilysmom. I had a jumping cursor on an early 2011 MBP (I no longer use it, since I spilled liquid on it and killed it). It happened a few times, that when I was using it, the trackpad would go haywire.

It seemed to resolve and I had many happy years without no recurrence.

Cogito ergo sum

glb613 · ‎03-09-2010

@Lilysmom wrote:
I have been doing more documents lately. The cursor, in the middle of typing, positions itself on another line in text previously typed. Has anyone else had this happen?

I made an appointment at the store for next week. LM

Mine's been doing that for some time. I thought I was pressing the wrong key causing it to happen. Please post back with the answer you get from the techs.

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

And I thought that jumping cursor was one of the signs my 5-year old Dell laptop was over the hill.

By the way, when I called my favorite techie for advice, his advice was not to waste my money trying service on this laptop - just buy new. That didn't surprise me, but his recommendation to stick with Dell sort of did. Haven't decided yet what I'm doing, but in the meantime, I'm getting a few more months with that cursor occasionally acting up. Today, it's being good.

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

@millieshops @glb613 @Sweetbay magnolia @TeriK, sorry I am so long to respond.

My MacBook Pro is less than a year old. I haven't used it much for documents but have recently been doing committee work resulting in increased word processing. I googled the error and some say it might be a bad battery.

It is so annoying. I don't watch the screen when I am typing so, if you don't catch it, your document text is a mess.

My appointment is next week which is within the warranty period so I hope to get it resolved at that appointment. I will post back after my appointment.

Thanks for your feedback. LM

jaxs mom · ‎04-18-2012

@Lilysmom wrote:
I have been doing more documents lately. The cursor, in the middle of typing, positions itself on another line in text previously typed. Has anyone else had this happen?

I made an appointment at the store for next week. LM

That sounds like a delay when typing, which is usually caused by programs running in the backgound that are using up RAM. When was the last time you completely powered off your mac?

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glb613 · ‎03-09-2010

@jaxs mom wrote:
@Lilysmom wrote:
I have been doing more documents lately. The cursor, in the middle of typing, positions itself on another line in text previously typed. Has anyone else had this happen?

I made an appointment at the store for next week. LM
That sounds like a delay when typing, which is usually caused by programs running in the backgound that are using up RAM. When was the last time you completely powered off your mac?

That's not a problem with my Macbook and the cursor will move to a different line without doing anything.

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

@glb613 wrote:
@jaxs mom wrote:
@Lilysmom wrote:
I have been doing more documents lately. The cursor, in the middle of typing, positions itself on another line in text previously typed. Has anyone else had this happen?

I made an appointment at the store for next week. LM
That sounds like a delay when typing, which is usually caused by programs running in the backgound that are using up RAM. When was the last time you completely powered off your mac?

That's not a problem with my Macbook and the cursor will move to a different line without doing anything.

@jaxs mom @glb613, that's definitely not the problem. My MacBook Pro is powered down every night. LM

PS, I get this is an issue though @jaxs mom. It happens quite a bit with my iphone which is on all the time. I have to remind myself to power it down.