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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1933016" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>Ahha, I also have and use Logitech Marathon Laser M705 mice and also my wife also use one with our older 2007 and 2011 iMacs, since they were first released 2013 era, and I used to say and recommend them to many Mac users and were one of the best mice I have ever used in my Mac using life. That was until I bought a new one after I had updated my OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan Operating System and started having trouble with mine.</p><p></p><p>I should point out here that I discovered that Logitech made a few changes to their latest Logitech Marathon Laser M705 USB Wireless Mouse, and this image I had saved shows the differences:</p><p></p><p></p><p>The original model is shown on the left the newer one is on the right and the picture shows the differences highlighted in red and the skid pads on the later model or much smaller, they also removed the Hidden number 8 thumb button from the original model, yet they still kept the same model description and number. Rather stupid in my mind.</p><p></p><p>I mentioned this fact and your mouse problem may be because of the software you are trying to use. Their support site help was basically useless but did finally send me a new USB dongle but it did not fix most of my problems which was to do with tracking and scrolling.</p><p></p><p>I mentioned the differences above as it seems that the original Logitech M705 Mouse relies on the Logitech Control Center preference pane, and the Logitech Unifying USB dongle must be the correct one to be compatible. The newer later model Logitech Marathon Laser M705 Mouse (on the right in the diagram), seems to need the newer Logitech options preference pane. Unfortunately, they are not marked to differentiate them.</p><p>Either mice models both need the Logitech Unifying Software to let the preference pane software know which Mouse device is connected.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]38430[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>After I finally got everything more or less matched up and compatible, I was finally able to get the Logitech software to work as it was supposed to, or at least better than what it was doing which was driving me up the wall.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately not even the third party SteerMouse software that I paid for made things much better but at least it got the Logitech mouse into a workable state and I was able to customize some of the buttons that I want to use, but the operation was not smooth as my old Logitech M705 mouse had been years ago.</p><p></p><p>I hope some of this information can help you with your mouse problem you mentioned in your first post of this thread if any of it is actually related to your problem.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what Logitech softwarefor you have installed and are using or its version. Logitech's support site is not exactly overly informative and neither is their telephone support site, at least not in Canada.</p><p></p><p>Yes, at least I was able to get one of my Logitech Marathon Laser M705 mice and it's dongle working properly with my iMac, and I was able to customize some of the buttons the way I wanted, similar to my old original Logitech Marathon Laser M705 mouse that actually had the "hidden # 8" button.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>- Patrick</p><p>=======</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1933016, member: 175845"] Ahha, I also have and use Logitech Marathon Laser M705 mice and also my wife also use one with our older 2007 and 2011 iMacs, since they were first released 2013 era, and I used to say and recommend them to many Mac users and were one of the best mice I have ever used in my Mac using life. That was until I bought a new one after I had updated my OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan Operating System and started having trouble with mine. I should point out here that I discovered that Logitech made a few changes to their latest Logitech Marathon Laser M705 USB Wireless Mouse, and this image I had saved shows the differences: The original model is shown on the left the newer one is on the right and the picture shows the differences highlighted in red and the skid pads on the later model or much smaller, they also removed the Hidden number 8 thumb button from the original model, yet they still kept the same model description and number. Rather stupid in my mind. I mentioned this fact and your mouse problem may be because of the software you are trying to use. Their support site help was basically useless but did finally send me a new USB dongle but it did not fix most of my problems which was to do with tracking and scrolling. I mentioned the differences above as it seems that the original Logitech M705 Mouse relies on the Logitech Control Center preference pane, and the Logitech Unifying USB dongle must be the correct one to be compatible. The newer later model Logitech Marathon Laser M705 Mouse (on the right in the diagram), seems to need the newer Logitech options preference pane. Unfortunately, they are not marked to differentiate them. Either mice models both need the Logitech Unifying Software to let the preference pane software know which Mouse device is connected. [ATTACH type="full" alt="M705_Bottom_Comparison.jpg"]38430[/ATTACH] After I finally got everything more or less matched up and compatible, I was finally able to get the Logitech software to work as it was supposed to, or at least better than what it was doing which was driving me up the wall. Unfortunately not even the third party SteerMouse software that I paid for made things much better but at least it got the Logitech mouse into a workable state and I was able to customize some of the buttons that I want to use, but the operation was not smooth as my old Logitech M705 mouse had been years ago. I hope some of this information can help you with your mouse problem you mentioned in your first post of this thread if any of it is actually related to your problem. I don't know what Logitech softwarefor you have installed and are using or its version. Logitech's support site is not exactly overly informative and neither is their telephone support site, at least not in Canada. Yes, at least I was able to get one of my Logitech Marathon Laser M705 mice and it's dongle working properly with my iMac, and I was able to customize some of the buttons the way I wanted, similar to my old original Logitech Marathon Laser M705 mouse that actually had the "hidden # 8" button. - Patrick ======= [/QUOTE]
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