Resetting the Tablet Driver on a Mac

In the Dealing With Cursor Offset post, I noted that I was didn’t know how to delete the preference file for a Wacom tablet driver on a Mac. Not long after I posted that, Andy Bold sent me an e-mail that may help you Mac users out:

I’ve never seen this problem myself, but I can tell you that the System Preferences panel that came with my Bamboo doesn’t have a ‘remove preferences file’ option. It does have “Defaults” buttons on the “Pen” and “Tablet” tabs that factory reset the settings on these panels.

If hitting the Default buttons doesn’t fix the problem then there are two preferences files that can be removed to try and fix it.

* Start Terminal to go to the command line.

* Run these two commands:

- rm $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.wacom.pentablet.prefs
- rm $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.wacom.tabletpreferences

Hope that helps!

If you’re unfamiliar (or uncomfortable) with the Terminal program, then I would suggest just re-installing the driver. But, if you’re like me and likes to get their fingers a bit dirty, you now have that option.