Finder keeps jumping/scrolling to top

I've noticed this too. When I'm looking at files on the Macintosh HD, it doesn't do it. But when I have my USB external drive attached, the finder window always jumps to the top when I'm scrolled down and expand another folder.

Anyone else notice this problem?

I had the same issue since quite a while.

In the meantime I updated to the brand new OSX 10.8.3 yesterday, which doesn't solve the problem.

Finally I discovered, that the problem is user-depending and caused by a user specific preference setting!

So, I could recover the faulty behaviour just by:

- deleting the following file:

$USER/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

- and re-launch Finder afterwards (or alternatively logout/login).

Please note:

In Finder, the $USER/Library directory is declared as hidden by default.

To enable hidden files/folders in finder windows:

Open a terminal window and type the following line in:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Once this is done, hold down the ‘alt’ key on the keyboard and right click on the Finder icon, then

click on Relaunch.

I was having the same problem as the previous commentors. Finder windows would always jump to the top when I scrolled and, no matter what preference setting I changed, it persisted. Your recommendation to delete the finder prefs file (com.apple.finder.plist) appears to have done the trick!

Fortunately, I operate with my hidden files in view so this was a super easy fix. I still have to now reset some of my finder preferences again. But that's trivial compared to the frustration I was experiencing.

Thank you Johann_O!