macOS Monterey finder spring back horizontal scrolling

Hmmm... don't count your chickens before they're hatched, but it *seems* to me that the issue is gone with macOS Monterey 12.3 that was released tonight, March 14th.

My column view Finder window *finally* seems stable, and stops jumping erratically to the far right.

Anyone confirms this?

It's been a few days (after months of annoyance) but so far mine is holding together. What I did was delete the com.apple.finder.plist out of ~/Library/Preferences and then immediately updated to 12.3 with the plist deleted. Not sure if or why that would have made a difference, but so far it's holding together. I'm probably jinxing it by writing this.

Vic

I followed this thread since page 2 and always checked if there is any solution for the issue... but there never was one.

For me it is now fixed in macOS 12.5 (at least in the 2 hours I'm running 12.5).

A temporary fix that worked for me was hiding the previews for the files from the View->Hide Preview menu.

Obviously this is a workaround until hopefully Apple solves this.

I had this issue since moving to monterey on my Macbook Pros. Just ran the 12.1 update yesterday and it *seems* to be resolved. Anyone else run the update and see it resolved?

Genius. Hide Preview worked for me. Ta

Updated to 12.2 this morning, all seems well so far.

The spring back issue was completely resolved for me in 12.1.

As for applications running in Rosetta, that is up to the developers putting out updates and most already have. Make sure your applications are up to date.

Anyway many applications actually run faster under Rosetta than running on older Intel macs.

MrGraham15 wrote:

Could there be a setting you have on/off that we don’t? Seems weird that 12.1 would fix yours and not ours

I can't see which setting would make a difference.

Do you also see the problem: a) in Safe Mode? b) in a new user account?

Hi Victor_D, I tried your approach: does not work for me, does not change anything, unfortunately.

I've said I strongly believe it's a QuickLook display issue when in Column View, grabbing the focus of the mouse and (and probably also the keyboard) and forcing the Finder Window to redraw the rightmost item being rendered.

I've got a feeling this happens when a column lists .pdf, .eml or .txt files, because QuickLook renders those files in a box that also allows scrolling with two-finger (WHAT A GREAT GUI IDEA, A SCROLLABLE BOX EMBEDDED IN A SCROLLABLE WINDOW!!!). And when you do scroll when your cursor is in that box, you can not scroll the column view in any direction: you just scroll the QuickLook preview. You have to move the mouse pointer out of the QuickLook render box to enable "column scrolling" again (that part I agree with, this makes sense and is "discoverable" by the user).

Still, Apple: can you please urgently send this hint to your best QuickLook and Finder Window engineers, and have her/him analyse finely the QuickLook routine vs the cursor positioning in the Column hierarchy?

Currently, the QuickLook rendering triggers a rightmost refresh of the column view, no matter where the horizontal sliders are positioned.

But it should be the reverse: it's the horizontal sliding that should preempt the Quicklook refresh routine. If we scrolled left (even by a single pixel), then QuickLook should be disabled. We're obviously not QuickLooking if we scrolled left.

Makes sense? Anyone confirms my intuition on the filetypes involved?

Also, huge display error in the QuickLook render box, for a PDF: you have two horizontal arrows displayed if the PDF has more than one page, but you have to scroll vertically to show the next pages. CONFUSING!

I have research and find that this way can help you, just following this step by step:

1. Relaunch Finder
2. Restart your Mac
3. Delete the corrupted Finder PLIST file
4. Debug the Trackpad or mouse settings
5. Reset NVRAM/PRAM
6. Update your Mac

Relaunch Finder

When Finder performs abnormally, the first thing you can do is to Force Quit Finder to relaunch it.

• Click the Apple Menu > Force Quit.
• Select Finder in the pop-up Force Quit Applications window, and then click Relaunch.
• Click Relaunch on the confirmation window.

Now, go to check if you have a well functional Finder now.

Thanks

I was having this trouble, too. Now with the 12.4 update the spring back problem seems fixed, but it is impossible to get the horizontal scroll bar to appear with my Logitech mouse. Vertical scroll bars in Finder do appear. I even have my General settings set to show the scroll bars all the time.

I got a fix of the problem. I deactivate the "sort by" Function.

Update to 12.5

For me the issue is solved with the update. (see above)

Seems 12.5 finally fixed this issue, I also haven't had any spring back yet