mountain lion finder search scroll bug

It's a problem in your computer. Open System Preferences > Users and Groups, create an user and check if it happens

How can you say that with such certainty? I have exactly the same problem.

I have the same problem. Ever since the upgrade to Mountain Lion.

Although, I just found a suggestion to make scrollbars always visible, it seems like that may have worked.

I have exactly the same problem, even with the scrollbars set to "always visible".

It's drives me insane..

Edit: I just noticed, that the problem does not occur whith a few results.

I just had a search with 63 results and scrolling behaved normally..

But i can reproduce the problem every time with 600 results or more...

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Have any of you tried to click or drag the scroll bar to the bottom instead of scrolling with the mouse/trackpad?

Of course.

When i grab the scroll bar with the mouse and start dragging down, after a point it bounces back to the top,

without me ever releasing the mouse!!

When i use the page up/down keys on the keyboard, i press the down key like 4-5 times and suddenly we're back at the top!

It's magical!!!

Had anyone found a solution to this, I have the issue where is I search in finder and scroll it bounces back to the top. I have tried page down and does the same.

I have also tried to click in the scroll bar and scroll manually, but it bounces back to quickly to actually choose the file I need, any ideas...

It only seems to be a problem on the List view.

Here is a long post on a similar problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2577564?answerId=12261261022#12261261022

I can't replicate either of your bugs. My finder lists don't jump around and my Safari address doesn't change the domain.

I've had this same Spotlight results scroll focus change OS bug ever since Mountain Lion. I've observed it on 3 different macbook pros, both with an upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion, and also a complete CLEAN install of Mountain Lion on a brand new disk where I've not dragged over any system files, preferences or apps. For me, all ML exhibit this bug from 10.8 to the most current 10.8.3.

I have not edited the Search Results categories that are selected (in Preferences > Spotlight)

The only time this has not occurred is in the first 2 days of the using the clean install of ML. The scroll focus behaved correctly even with a lot of results. It's now been a week since the clean install and the scroll focus change bug is now active again since day 3. It is possible to scroll slowly with the mouse wheel/gesture and it won't always (10% of the time?) snap focus to the top.

Thanks for the reference link above, but it was not helpful to me:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2577564?answerId=12261261022#12261261022

• The thread refers to OS 10.6., and I did not observe this bug in that OS, or 10.7.
• One recommendations is to delete the plist (preferences), but this is not a practical solution because the problem comes back quickly.
• The other recommendation is to turn off calculate size of files or the Spotlight results folder. It is not possible, as far as I can see, to turn calculate sizes on in the View Options for the Spotlight results window. It is possible to turn on/off sizes as a column in the results, but this made no difference with the bug.

Other tests I've performed that did not fix the bug:

1. Change "Show scroll bars:" to "Always". This made no difference.
2. Change "Click in the scroll bar to:" to "Jump to the spot that's clicked". No difference.

Other tests that could be performed:

1) System Preferences > Spotlight: Search Results - turn categories on and off to see if that makes a difference.

And finally, this has reduced the problem to occurring only 10% of the time now!

turn off Smooth Scrolling. This is no longer a checkbox in System Preferences > Appearance in 10.8 ML, so you have to use a shell command in Terminal. If you want to explore this approach look at these two references:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120726122633912

http://www.marekbell.com/how-to-disable-smooth-scrolling-in-mountain-lion/

Now I'm waiting to see if other parts of the ML OS will be negatively affected by turning off Smooth Scrolling, and then I'll decide which is worse. Bottom line, this is not a fix, but it seems to have reduced the occurrence of the Spotlight results scroll focus change OS bug.

I find this so fustrating, I will have to monitor exactly when this happens as I find it happens mostly when I am searching for something via the "open" facility in software

I would suggest the best thing to do is report this as a bug to Apple.

Dont forget to use their official bug reporter page.

I have tried very hard to find other ways around this problem but the only solution (if the full scroll in the search facility is an absolute necessity) is to reinstall Lion until a solution becomes availbe from Apple.

I also have this problem and it drives me batty. I have had it since some time around 10.7 and it persists on more than one machine I use in 10.8. I don't think creating new accounts or re-installing OS will make the slightest difference since I have seen this bug on multiple machines. It makes spotlight almost totally unusable especially on machines with a LOT of data since searches with a long list of results seem to be most affected. Anyon ehave any useful suggestions? I'm a former mac genius, so please don't say reinstall OS or set up a new user since obviously I already tried those kinds of easy fixes.

To fix this all you have to do is add your harddrive to the privacy list in spotlight preferences

@TehPwN:

Not helpful. If you want to be silly go somewhere else and stop wasting our time. I am waiting for a solution to this are you are not helping.