Finder keeps jumping/scrolling to top

Question

Has anyone else had the issue where Finder will jump to top of list or selected item while browsing files. It is extremely irritating and I've tried turning off various options like spring loading and hiding the size and date added column, but there is no change. It also doesn't matter how the files are sorted. I'm not certain, but it doesn't seem to happen in Icon view, only List view is confirmed issue. Anyone found a fix for this? It happens more often when browsing network volumes.

Answer 1

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.