How to use different magic mouses at home and at work

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I have two magic mouses, one at home and one at work. Both work just fine over bluetooth with my Macbook Pro (10.9.2), which I use at both places.

Suppose I'm using my home mouse, and then unplug my laptop. If I use my laptop at home next, the mouse with automatically connect. But if instead I bring it to work, the mouse won't automatically connect and I'll have to connect it manually. At which point, I'll have the same problem again: it'll automatically connect to my work mouse, but I'll have to connect my home mouse manually.

This is getting really frustrating. Is there any way I can make both mouses connect automatically?

Best Answer

Afaik what happens to you is not default OS X behavior. It should always connect to any input-device that is nearby automatically.

You could try the following:

  1. Remove all bluetooth devices from the bluetooth preferences
  2. Delete com.Apple.Bluetooth.plist from /Library/Preferences and/or ~/Library/Preferences (once I had it in both... not sure why)
  3. Reboot

  4. Pair devices again

  5. Reset your PRAM by holding ⌘ Command+⌥ Option+P+R after pressing the power button when turned off. Hold it until the startup-chime is heard for the 2nd time.

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