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Hotwheels22 Author

Level 1

15 points

Why does Finder jump around (jump around)

Can anyone help me better understand (and perhaps prevent) some of Finder's funkier behavior? I'm coming from the land of PC (thanks for the warm welcome) but find this jumping around really confusing and troublesome.

I'm on a 13" MBP and when I try and uncollapse a folder, I think I want finder to stay "focused" on the folder that I am uncollapsing. Right now it seems to (?) jump all the way down, or all the way up, to whatever folder happens to be /selected/. This means that I am /constantly/ scrolling through a list of 100's of files to get /back/ to the folder that I am interested in.

Finder should know this since it is the folder I just uncollapsed...

Since the "selected" folder is totally irrelevant to me it is a total PITA to constantly be running around like this.

Do I /really/ have to select the folder I am uncollapsing and /then/ uncollapse the folder in order to get finder to stay focused on the folder I am interested in and I am uncollapsing?

Thanks.

Mac OS X (10.6.3), Mac Pro, MacBook Pro

Posted on Sep 11, 2010 12:09 PM

62 replies

Oct 4, 2015 1:36 PM in response to Hotwheels22

My issue was trying to scroll down in finder in cover flow view and it would bounce back up to original folder (selected) item. Had to select a new folder farther down the list to prevent bouncing back all the way to the top. No matter what it would always bounce back to selected folder. Yes, very annoying. Here's what fixed it in my case:

in finder menu go to view\show view options. I have "date modified" "size" and "kind" checked. Unchecked and rechecked these boxes. Also, unchecked and rechecked "calculate all sizes." Seems to have reset and cleared out buggy behavior.

lululola

Level 1

6 points

Sep 17, 2016 8:34 PM in response to <positive>

Thank you. You got me close enough to the FIX for me. I am using El Capitan - Macbook Pro 2015.

THE FIX FOR ME:

1) go to Finder MENU (*not finder preferences) / VIEW / Show View Options / Deselect all boxes that are checked / close finder

2) finder MENU / view / Arrange by / Select "date modified" / close

DONE/FIXED.

I imagine you can select anything to "arrange by" and it will be fixed but all I know for sure is the above worked.

Why does Finder jump around (jump around)