M1 Max Monterey Finder scroll issue

Your theory of it wanting to still show the item preview makes sense. A workaround someone suggested in another thread was to untick the "show preview icon" from CMD-J, but it doesn't fix it completely. It's better, but still janky AF.

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?

After a month, I do see the snapback rarely, so System Preferences > Mouse > turning swipe between pages off, then back on isn't 100%.

Same here, very disturbing for heavy column view users, with deeply nested folder hierarchies...

Apple, please bring back horizontal inertia in Finder, we are many using this feature to navigate fast!

I am writing this almost the end of March 2022 and the problem still persists. This is a very annoying issue when working with a deeper multiple-level folder in columns view. Whenever you try to use the two-finger gesture to go to the upper levels of the folder, it will keep bringing you back to the lowest level. I thought the problem was only on my MacBook Pro but now it is also doing the same on my Mac Mini Desktop. It's certainly an OS issue.

Apples PLEASE FIX THIS.

There are many other issues where I see Apple is rolling back on good features, such as Photos Memories, we used to be able to edit them and now with the latest upgrade, editing is very limited.

What is going on, why roll back on such a good feature, is this is how you reward us by being a loyal customer?

@Karhmen

I have tried all these, couple of times, nothing works.

That said, I discovered something very strange.

In safe mode, the flickering happens only once. Then it doesn't, ever.

That's the only thing I have found that puts me in a normal behavior. Start in Safe boot, and it flickers once, and done.

Of course, that is not a fix as it requires to start in safe mode... but maybe it will help narrow the origin of the issue.

I am also not seeing any jumping back in Finder columns with 12.5. But then it's been intermittent for me all along.

I still see an issue that could be related: The mouse pointer jumps to the lower left of the monitor in certain apps, such as Affinity Photo, when System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom > Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom is checked. The jumping does not occur when that's unchecked.

has nothing to do with long file names. It is a glitch and has not been fixed for over 2 years.

Given that this has been fixed several iterations of Monterey ago (I can't remember if it was 12.1 or 12.2.1)...

I already had that unchecked and it's been happening to me since updating to Monterey. Here is another thread with the same issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253297944

So far no solutions on it either but maybe if we make some noise about it, Apple will come up with a fix.

Apple, please, respond and correct this crazy bug: it's probably a conflict with Quicklook, or the level of the mouse focus in column view.

It's even hard to create a new folder and edit its name: the focus jumps to another location in the window, so you have to scroll back to find the half-edited name, and start again...

Please: it's really annoying.

Hmmm... grmbl... it's not entirely fixed, after all: I've suffered a lot less, but tonight, I got yet again a "far-right erratic jump" when displaying a JPG file, and then scrolling left. Finder brought me back to the far right.

Apple, one more round of debugging please! Pleeeeeeaaaaase for Monterey 12.4!

Yes I would have to agree with Grand-Zouave. After further testing, while better for most, I did have the old annoying experience this morning. It was an isolated case, though still very annoying. I think it was associated with a folder that had files with long filenames??

Apple, this was first reported in Oct. 2021, it is now May 2022, and the problem is still present; when scrolling left/right in Finder on the New MacBook Pro 16" 2021 M1 Max with MacOS Monterey, it will jump back to the last open column in Column View. Please resolve this as it is very frustrating when trying to search Finder or look at different files quickly.

I also have this problem, on a MBP 16" Retina 2019, using Magic Mouse (and trackpad), since I updated to Monterey.

Now on Version 12.4 and still the same problem - even after having tried the various work-arounds mentioned here.

Is no-one at Apple aware of this? It's extremely annoying to have to remember to navigate to the left-most column to change the parent folder.