New Finder and "save as" issues for macOS 26.0 and forth

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New Finder and "save as" issues for macOS 26.0 and forth

After updating to macOS 26(26.0, 26.1 and 26.2), I found some daily buggy like issues, hope any macOS talents give me advices to solve them, thank you:

(1) Finder horizontal scroll bar screens the column width adjustment button. In column view mode in the Finder, when opening any multi-level folders, once the horizontal scroll bar is activated(after opening a few subfolders), the horizontal scroll bar will cover the entire thin level of horizontal bottom area of the list screen and also screen all the adjustment buttons "||" of at the bottom of all the column partition bars(also the column scroll bars), no matter the "||" is behind the horizontal scroller or just beside the scroller, you just can't click it and use it to adjust the column widths. This always happens no matter what the window size is, full-screen mode or not, and you can't fix it by restarting the macOS.

(2) Tab button jumping sequences in saving. Before updating to macOS 26, when saving a file, click a exist file in the file list showed would generate the same file name inside the "Save As" box, then I pressed <Tab> and the cursor would directly jump into the "Save As" box and let me instantly modify the file name base on the original one, so convenient for daily. But now, I need to press "Tab" 6 times to do so, it is very very annoying.

MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

Posted on Dec 24, 2025 11:55 PM

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Answer 1

CfromNL

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14 points

Jan 19, 2026 7:44 AM in response to Loganpoor

I'm having the exact same issue that you described about the horizontal scroll bar blocking the grab point to adjust column width.

My computer is a 2024 MacBook Pro 16" with Mac OS 26.2.

A suggestion on a different thread was to clear the Finder preferences, but that does not solve the issue on my computer. When I reinstate the "show path bar" and " show status bar" options, the horizontal scroll bar is once again in front of the grab points to change the width of the columns.

This appears to be a glitch where the presence of the status and path bars bump the location of the horizontal scroll upwards, thereby placing it in front of the grab points.

On my system there are two workarounds until this glitch is sorted out:

hide the path bar and status bar
play around with the scroll bar setting (system settings -> appearance, as suggested by Luis Sequeira1 in this thread)

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Answer 2

Dec 25, 2025 3:23 AM in response to Loganpoor

You can try changing your scroll bar setting in System Settings->Appearance.

I have mine set to "Automatically based on mouse or trackpad".

With this setting, you don't need to use adjustment buttons, you can click and drag anywhere on the vertical border to adjust the columns.

Also, scroll bars only appear when actually scrolling, and thus do not cover the bottom line:

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caldicot

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15 points

Jan 1, 2026 9:22 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

thanks for this idea! In my case, it was covered when using "Automatically based on mouse or trackpad" or "Always". I can only work around by choosing "while scrolling".

That said I am using Logitech MX Master as mouse, maybe this is the reason why it behaves differently for me.

At least a workaround, to be able to change the column width again. That drove me nuts ...

Happy new year!

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Answer 4

Jan 9, 2026 7:37 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

This doesn't work for me. I also have my settings set to "Automatically based on mouse or trackpad" and the scroll bar still covers the width adjustment button constantly.

edit: The scroll bar does not disappear at all for me, regardless of mouse movement (or lack of movement).

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Answer 5

Jan 9, 2026 7:34 AM in response to lovellbenjamin

lovellbenjamin wrote:

This doesn't work for me. I also have my settings set to "Automatically based on mouse or trackpad" and the scroll bar still covers the width adjustment button constantly.

For me, this only happens when actually scrolling... if I just pause the scrolling the scroll bar vanishes after a second or so. And when it is there it only covers the last line partially, it is still readable. I agree it is somewhat unpleasant, but not a showstopper.

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ozRob

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Jan 19, 2026 4:14 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Thanks, this worked for me. I can't see any difference in behaviour of the "When scrolling" and "Automatically…" setting.

I normally use the "Always" setting, I think hiding scroll bars isn't user friendly. I don't typically use the "Resize columns to fit file names" setting because occasionally there's a very long filename that makes the column way too wide.

The horizontal scroll bar covering the column width adjustment is a plain bug.

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