I just received a 2012 MBP that I purchased off of Ebay. It was listed as having liquid damaged, does not power on. When I received it the system powered up just fine and appears to be fully operational. I performed an Internet Recovery which installed macOS El Capitan and then proceeded to upgrade it to macOS Catalina. So far so good.
I then attempted to go to the System Preferences to change the behavior of the track pad (I want to configure it for tap to click). However the system reports it's unable to locate one and continues to search Blue Tooth for a trackpad. In the past the internal trackpad has always shown up under the trackpad control panel. My question is has the location of configuring the trackpad changed in Catalina? Is there a trick to changing the trackpad behavior? As for the operation of the trackpad it appears to be working perfectly. Mouse movements are smooth and physically clicking the trackpad works fine (the liquid damage was at the back of the system, no where near the trackpad itself).
Am I missing something when it comes to configuring the internal trackpad? To my knowledge this system is supported by macOS Catalina. I've heard Catalina is buggy (I don't have i
I then attempted to go to the System Preferences to change the behavior of the track pad (I want to configure it for tap to click). However the system reports it's unable to locate one and continues to search Blue Tooth for a trackpad. In the past the internal trackpad has always shown up under the trackpad control panel. My question is has the location of configuring the trackpad changed in Catalina? Is there a trick to changing the trackpad behavior? As for the operation of the trackpad it appears to be working perfectly. Mouse movements are smooth and physically clicking the trackpad works fine (the liquid damage was at the back of the system, no where near the trackpad itself).
Am I missing something when it comes to configuring the internal trackpad? To my knowledge this system is supported by macOS Catalina. I've heard Catalina is buggy (I don't have i