"Name" portion of my Finder windows too long

Same problem here since "upgrading" to Mavericks. None of these ideas so far fix the issue, especially not the tricks that have been around for years, like holding down the Option key. This is a new bug.

Did you try my applescript (a few messages back) bound to a keyboard shortcut? In theory it has to work, because once Finder has all columns in display, it starts to resize them fluidly, and all my script does is make the window really wide then back to the original size to trigger this functionality. I've bound in to CMD + E using BetterTouch Tool, and now I've gotten into the habit of hitting that every time I notice a horizontal scrollbar in Finder. Works a treat, and no one I've passed the script to has said it doesn't work, so I'd love to hear what happens when you use it so that I can debug it and write something that works for everyone.

Yes, it's not ideal, but Apple are too big of a company to listen to users any more. Their report feedback section is a joke, I don't think any bug ever reported has ever actually been read by Apple staff. And obviously this is just an unmonitored user support forum, so there is no point complaining on here.

FOUND THE FIX... finally!!!!!

Adjust the fields to how you want them to be then move them slightly holding down the command key. Similar to adding icons to the top bar this now sets the perameters of the areas.

now close that page and open a new page... should still show the same adjustments to the fields!

Ahhhhh Finally!!! - That's been bugging the crap out of me!!

And, since Mavericks, the preview (with space) of pix in finder is often corrupted (only half, oder pixelated).

And the preview in the finder/row view takes soooo long. laggy.

anyone ideas or same probs?

Try repairing your disk permissions, that has fixed the issues many people have been experiencing with Mavericks preview. Also, please try and keep the forum threads on topic. Threads get out of hand if multiple people start conversing about different issues. This thread is titled ""Name" portion of my Finder windows too long", so if your issue does not relate to this topic, find a relevant thread or start a new one.

Thanks for your response.

I, along with many other people in the office, had problems with preview being extremely slow (aka, 5 seconds to load an small jpg). Someone figured out that suddenly after repairing the startup disk permissions, preview was back to being fast again. We all did it, and voila, preview was quick for everyone.

So I really do appreciate you telling me that what I, and many other people have witnessed and experienced, is wrong. You must be really smart to know that my experiences are false, so thank you very much for telling me how wrong I am, even though you haven't experienced the problem yourself, and many other people have used repair disk permissions to fix the issue. We all must be wrong, thankfully there are absolute genuises in the world like you to warn other people of how wrong all of us normal people are without ever having to even try our suggestions yourself 🙂

Also, you will notice that my previous comment states to repair startup permissions, yet the topic is titled ""Name" portion of my Finder windows too long". How long do you think it's going to be before someone comes and tries to repair startup permissions, then says it hasn't fixed their problem with the Name field being too long? And then, if someone makes another suggestion about another problem, people are going to try that too to fix the original problem, because it's pretty unclear who is replying to who.

So yes, multiple questions in the same thread render the entire thread useless, because everyone is talking about different things and no one knows what solution is designed for what problem.

That's why, you know, threads were invented in the first place, so people can seperate ideas instead of having absolutely everything in one long list.

But again, you're the know-it-all genuis right? As long as it flies with you, it's A-OK.

easy levy...maybe a Snickers bar is in order? I get the thread thing, but troubleshooting issues like this it's important for the dialog to be open...look how many random answers people have come up with that worked for them, but not others. Intermittent issues are the most infuriating to troubleshoot, and thus every bit of data is in fact useful in some form.

On topic, I'm still experiencing the name field too long issue. Have tried every fix I've found in this thread, and have come to the conclusion that this is in fact a bug that doesn't appear to be affecting everyone. (I never get it on my Macbook Air on Mavericks, but the MBr has the issue on every new finder window)

I have to give a huge thanks to you levymetal, your little applescript combined with a key combo has brought some sanity to my life. It's working perfectly so far, and is sooo much quicker than manually resizing.

Did you try my applescript (a few messages back) bound to a keyboard shortcut? In theory it has to work, because once Finder has all columns in display, it starts to resize them fluidly, and all my script does is make the window really wide then back to the original size to trigger this functionality. I've bound in to CMD + E using BetterTouch Tool, and now I've gotten into the habit of hitting that every time I notice a horizontal scrollbar in Finder. Works a treat, and no one I've passed the script to has said it doesn't work, so I'd love to hear what happens when you use it so that I can debug it and write something that works for everyone.

-open~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder with an Applikation like PrefEdit.app

-find StandardViewSettings->ListViewSettings->columns->kind

-in kind modify the order of the items (by dragging the items) to visible, ascending, width, index

-safe the file

then remove all .DS_Store files of your system

cd /

sudo rm -R .DS_Store

I hope it will help

don’t forget you will do it on your own risk …

Also having this issue on 1.9.2. Next to the new color tagging function which does not color the whole row of a file but only creates a small dot somewhere in the off where you can't see it because of the width bug is the worst of Mavericks. Kinda ironic.

Many thanks to Heavy LevyMetal-- the applescript with Better Touch Tool really helps for list view.

The other tip I found for column views that open way too wide is a very simple fix: option-drag the first column to your preferred width. This will resize all the columns in that window, and all column views in all finder windows will then open with those column widths in the future. Also thanks to Maddog4U, have disabled open in tabs preference.