macOS Monterey finder spring back horizontal scrolling

I still can't believe this still hasn't be solved. The only work around for now is to click on folders as I scroll to the left so the preview pane doesn't bounce back, or to use the left arrow key to navigate. I upgraded from Catalina to Monterey in December and I've had the issue from day 1; curious if anyone with a new macbook whose first iOS was Monterey has the same issue.

Brand new M1Max, same issue. You can actually quickly verify this by swinging by an Apple shop, just create a new folder in Downloads, and jump in that folder and create another one ... When you create five layers or so, you can replicate the spring back on their demo machines.

I kinda have to agree with this sentiment, this is a bug in a core function that really shouldn't exist to begin with and is very annoying, you can work around by stretching the window out but having to take up the majority of your desktop to view a file isn't exactly conducive to one's workflow, just fix it already apple.

Hi all, I just discovered that double clicking anywhere at the top of any open folder expands the whole folder vertically and horizontally evenly and no longer runs to the left because everything is geometrically distributed, the inconvenience is having to do it every time, but it can help I think.

Hi, the "dinosaur" way I have solved this problem is to "double-click" with the mouse on the top bar of the window, the window opens horizontally and it stay static, letting me see everything and it doesn't move. I also see my window in column view and I love it!

Does the issue also occur in Safe Mode?

Does the issue also occur when booted normally and logged in to a new user account?

I'm sorry to hear this. Have you updated to MacOS 12.2.1? I think this is possibly part of the "fix."

This was driving me crazy. I found the thing that stopped it was hitting the back arrow at the top of the window that's doing it. Then it sticks there.

This is easily the most annoying of a long list of bugs that are in Monterey.

I do experience lots of behaviours that may have the same origin – It seems as though the programs refresh randomly or maybe get indexed all the time. If I have the folder open for a while I can scroll back and it takes quite a while longer for it to jump to the highest selected level.

Another issue I have with contacts – I cannot enter a new contact as it keeps refreshing an my new contact window is gone before I can finish it.

In calendar when I add new calendars it will refresh and be untitled before I can name it. (Although I cannot reproduce that right now, but observed it a couple of times)

In mail (which I have on a second screen) I see the inbox being reloaded from time to time out of the blue (not refreshing to get new mails just everything is gone for a split second before it comes back up). It's annoying there, too, when you are reading in the depth of a conversation and suddenly you are kicked out again.

Somehow I feel this is all related as it all is a reload/rebuild kind of behaviour. And it really spoiled the excitement of the new MBP...

I'm having the same issue on 3 different machines, a Late 2014 iMac, a 2018 iMac, and a Late 2015 Macbook Air. It only seems to be an issue in Column view. Not only is it jumping horizontally across the window to the top file, but it also widens my columns to unnecessarily wide panels. Restarting DOES NOT FIX this issue, as mentioned by WEBundle_xyz. I've read some temporary fixes related to the Trackpad settings, but that seemed to only last temporarily and my main two machines use mice as opposed to the trackpad.

WEBundle_xyz also mentioned a sound issue as well. I'm only today experiencing that for the first time, I was connected to a Bluetooth device this morning for audio, and it would only play through my built-in speakers, as opposed to the Bluetooth device. Wound up having to restart my computer for it to connect to Bluetooth.

Hoping Apple will address this issue, as I haven't seen anything like this happen in the 15 years I've owned Apple computers.

I just updated to Monterey yesterday and am already being driven nuts by this glitch. Tried restarting, but had no effect. Finder seems to want to jump to the end of the horizontal scroll for the last column every time. This needs to be fixed!

I'm experiencing the same issue, which is really disruptive when working. I have to click to the top-level folder and start over to avoid it, and it happens over and over when I try to scroll over. Restarting doesn't fix it for me either. It would be great to know that a fix is in the works so we know we'll have relief soon.

I'm not sure who's responding to who, but has anyone tried my technique of going to the OS drive or folder and then back? When I have trouble with my external USB data drive, I 'launder' it by clicking onto my OS drive, then back after a few seconds, and that clears it up.

I suspect this has something to do with poor hard drive / file management by Finder but I know only enough to be dangerous.

I think software quality control has been very poor in the last few years, Steve Jobs would not have tolerated this.

Anyway, I will be sticking around on Big Sur for now, Monterey just had to many other problems for me and have non of it on Big Sur.

As mentioned above 12.2 did not fixe the problem it just kinda hid it better. When I'm in a folder far right and scroll to the left it does not jump back right away – which is an improvement over the previous state that made working in column view absolutely impossible for me – it does jump back to the far right at some point, though if you just leave it be. It does take considerably longer to do so compared to 12.1

Or is that just me?