Stop Finder window sliding to left. Show scrollbars

Dear Dialabrain

Thanks for your prompt reply, but no, all my Finder views are List views. But perhaps I am not explaining properly. It is as follows:

What I would like to do is fix my left hand side of Finder so it won't scroll left.

I suspect, however, that this is not possible with Apple.

Thanks

Guern

Thanks dialabrain, but no - that is column view.

It is quite possible that some of the earlier ones I saw were column view, but since you pointed out the difference, I have been confirming it is list view.

In the screenshot below, if I start in my documents folder, the left margin moves from the blue line to the red line when I click on Health&Medical folder in list view. I would like it to stay fixed.

Dear Dialabrain

Thanks for your patience.

It is not the same problem as I was explaining above, but playing around I have discovered how to reproduce another similar problem as these two images show; Before & After, both in list view.

It is very simple - I was unintentionally scrolling right by moving my hand on my mouse! But is there no way to stop this happening in Finder?

Dear Dialabrain

Do these shots explain my problem - If I click on Coronaviruslevel2 in the first screen it slides away to the left and changes to the second screen, and I loose sight of all the higher levels.

Thanks Dialabrain

I'm lost which post you are referring to.

However, if it is about disabling scrollbars, that is fine for Finder, but it creates another problem in other apps.

Thanks for all your help, but I have basically concluded that Apple hasn't provided a way to fix the Finder window the way I want it, to stop it sliding/collapsing into the left.

Cheers

Guern

Thanks Dialabrain, but I am in List view.

It only happens sometimes, and I can't reproduce it to order, though.

Guern

Thank you very much Leroy.

I now have my scroll bars in my Finder. Easy. Thanks.

The finder contents still slide to the left under the sidebar sometimes, though. Don't know how to stop that.

And resizing the Finder window only helps for a while until I restart, then the window reverts back to a little one. I see there are many postings about fixing that, such as deleting the com.apple.finder.plist file, which I have tried, to no avail, but frankly it seems a bit extreme!

I had looked at those links you provided, but they are not very helpful with the basic explanations. And I had not expected to find a "Finder Preference" hiding under "System Preferences", when a "Finder Preference" is a more sensible place to put it. Still I suppose that is decades of Apple development behind that idea.

Anyway, with the scroll bars, at least it is easy to get back to see what I want.

Cheers

Guern