If you followed the steps correctly, you should be back to “normal” :)

Now try swiping to the left and right.

Confirm that there are two entries in the Trackpad Gestures – one for swiping left and one for swiping right.

The ‘opposite’ of the choices you made the first time.

Repeat steps 6 through 10, this time selecting 3 Finger Swipe Right as the gesture, and Move Left a Space as the action.

The Gesture should be set to 3 Finger Swipe Left and the Assigned Action / Shortcut should be set to Move Right a Space

Now, make sure there’s a “new entry” in the Trackpad Gesture row.

From that list, select Move Right a Space.

In the window that pops up, click the ‘arrow’ next to OS X Functionality to expand the list.

In the Predefined Action: section, select the No Action menu.

From that list, select 3 Finger Swipe Left.

In the window that pops up, click the ‘arrow’ next to Three Finger Gestures to expand the list.

From the Touchpad Gestures: section, select the Please Select a Gesture menu.

Select the Trackpads option/button from the menu at the top of the App and then make sure Global is selected from the Select Application: column located on the left side of the App. Don’t be intimidated by it’s seemingly endless options.

The main BetterTouchTool window will appear.

Once the installation has completed, launch BetterTouchTool (if it doesn’t automatically start), click on its icon in your Menubar and select Preferences. Download and install the Trial version of BetterTouchTool.

Now head over to the BetterTouchTool downloads page (link opens in a new window/tab).

Select the Mouse Gestures tab, and if Swipe between full-screen apps is checked, remove that check-mark.

Click the Apple icon in your Menubar and select System Preferences…

The first thing you need to do is disable the current ‘three finger swipe’ setting.

And again, you can use the trial period to try out this software before you have to make the purchase to continue using it. Here’s how to setup “BetterTouchTool” so that your can three-finger swipe the way you want to. For me it was absolutely a worthwhile purchase, I simply can’t get used to the ‘natural scrolling’ when applied to the 3-Finger ‘sideways’ swipe.

The good news about the bad news is that the software is excellent, very inexpensive (pay what you want in fact) and you get a long free trial period to test it out. The bad news is that I have yet to figure out a way that doesn’t involve paying for an App. The good news is that it can be done, pretty easily. In this overview we’ll show you how to reverse the direction that the 3-Finger Swipe Gesture on your Mac goes – the ‘horizontal swipe’ gesture used to move between “Spaces” (screens).

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