JZHackintosh

Easiest way I've found for doing this sort of thing is to boot from an OSX install disk and use the Disk Utility to back up your current partition by selecting it and using SAVE AS. Then re-partition the disk as you please and just restore the OSX onto your desired partition. I have NEVER had this fail and I've migrated from mechanical to SSD w/o any issues. Seems to be a bulletproof process whenever I need it... Since my touchpad does not work (unless I plug in one) when booting from OSX boot disk, I've even gotten the keyboard button combos that work for my needs. Using command/ctrl-F2 and F4 (AFAIR) is awesome for navigating the OSX menu structure via keyboard.

Awesome, thank you! You have to enable access to assistive devices to make this work but works well... Open System Preferences > Accessibility > bottom-left checkmark called Enable Access for Assistive Devices Here it is visually: http://www.tekrevue.com/2013/06/25/how-to-enable-access-for-assistive-devices-in-os-x-mavericks/

Works the same as before. Not saving settings, which looks to be an acknowledged issue and the pointer jitters when the finger is resting on the touchpad. Thanks again!

When I look at the other files in /Library/Preferences, the plist file has the same permissions as the other plist files which is rw-r--r-- and root/wheel as owner/group matching majority of the content in that folder. I'm happy to chmod it with full permissions but I have my doubts. Question: what do you get when you run sudo /usr/bin/synapticsconfigload? Does it succeed? I followed the RehabMan guide and the instructions found in this post extremely closely. I even had to grab some of the RehabMan's content since it was missing from the archive provided on this post. Who knows where it could've went wrong... I do hear that folks on an E6230 are running it... I guess the question is with how much success? Does the mouse shake a bit when holding down a finger on the touchpad and does the Finger Z value survive a reboot? Thanks for the feedback though!

@bpedman, I was hoping to get a bit of support but so far stuck on my own. I'm a computer nerd of 20 years so happy to do anything that's being asked of me. I've pretty much given up and temporarily rolled back to my EDP driver but hoping not to have to do that. Two issues are still messing with while only gaining one benefit (2 finger scroll) on my Dell E6230. Problems that are still occurring: The mouse jitters and jumps a few pixels like I see others posting yet supposedly fixing by adjusting Finger Z value but mine continues to be a problem no matter what Finger Z is set to. Finger Z value is reset on ever reboot. I've located the prefs files (there are a few of them some that I found by using the STRINGS command on the synapticsconfigload file and the other I trapped via OPENSNOOP command). Yet no matter which prefs file I hack the Finger Z value does not survive a reboot for the life of me. When I execute /usr/bin/synapticsconfigload I get Couldn't open config.plist --- even though the file /Library/Preferences/org.voodoo.SynapticsTouchpad.plist that STINGS identified for me is in place and even has the right Finger Z value. I'm open to suggestions and would appreciate any help. Thanks! JZ

Any idea why after reboot I have to reset the Finger Z value every time. I even tried touching /Library/Preferences/org.voodoo.SynapticsTouchpad.plist because inside of synapticsconfigload I do see a reference to that plist file. However, no changes are ever saved inside of that file. Did I miss a step at install time? BTW, other than that, everything is almost perfect. One thing is kinda finicky when I grab a window and just drag it somewhere but don't let go it jitters around when my finger is not really moving on the touchpad. It's like shaking... Thanks!