Troubleshooting Wacom Driver Issues on OS X

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Old Wacom Tablets <3 OS X Updates

Have you got an old Wacom Pen Tablet (Ex. Bamboo CTH-470) running on an old driver because the newer drivers don't support your old tablet? Are you running a recent OS X, and your mac won't boot after you update your system? Keep this in mind before you install your next OS X update.

Step 1: Remove Pen Tablet driver and preferences

This is important. Before you install any OS X updates, completely remove the Tablet driver and preferences from your system.

Step 1.1: Wacom Utility

Find the Wacom Utility in /Applications/Wacom Utility/Wacom Utility.app and use it to remove the Preferences for both the current user and all users.

When that's done, click the button to remove the tablet software. The Wacom Utility will remove itself.

Step 1.2: Terminal

Launch /Applications/Terminal.app. Remove all the preferences that the Wacom Utility didn't remove by running:

rm  ~/Library/Preferences/com.wacom.*

Step 1.3: Reboot

Yeah, sorry about that. Disconnect your Pen Tablet while you wait.

Step 2: Update OS X

This should be straightforward. Just make sure your tablet is not plugged in while you're installing the update.

Step 3: Re-install the Pen Tablet driver

Step 3.1: Connect your Pen Tablet

Step 3.2: Install Wacom Driver

I've got an old Bamboo CTH-470, and it's not working with the latest drivers. I use version 5.3.5 of the driver and it's working fine on OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan.

Step 3.3: Reboot again

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Step 3.4: Open System Preferences

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Thanks to:

• http://www.bingshui.org/tech/failing-wacom-tablet-driver-fix-for-os-x/
• http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.sys.mac.graphics/2008-02/msg00002.html

Hi, after Catalina you'd to use a custom driver,

https://github.com/thenickdude/wacom-driver-fix

I've found this and it work for my cth-470 wacom bamboo

Thank you very much for sharing, it worked so well and so easily for me on the bamboo CTL-470 on a late 2014 Mac Mini running macOS 12 Monterey