Is there a minimum width for folders in Finder?

Question

This seems like a general problem, but I will use a specific example. I have a mountable disk, which I open on the desktop. Doubleclick to open, revealing several folders, all of which are set to list view, status bar showing, path bar and tool bar hidden. Two things happen which are very annoying:
1. I will open one of the contained folders, and another within that one. I want to adjust the widths so that I can see all three list views, with each lower level a little narrower than the previous level. In 10.6 that was easy, and always worked. In 10.9 however, I can't narrow some windows as before. I can have a given window at the width I want, but can't make a contained window even that narrow. The effect seems pretty random.
2. Having a window open, and showing more than one header field (name, date, size, etc.), I will often move the limit of the first one (name) to the right edge of the window, as name is all I want to see. When I close the window, and open it sometime later, the headers are back to the original state, not the state I left them in. That is also random in the sense that some windows do not act that way, but for a window that does, it always happens.
I understand that there may be an absolute minimum width in force, but in my case I can't make all windows correspond to the narrowest one I am using. I can accept any combination of bars showing and hidden, as long as all are consistent. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Hi barbtastic,
There is a way to find out where the original photo is that you have in your iPhoto Library. On this page there are iPhoto Applescripts. One of them is "show image file" I tried it and it does work for iPhoto 5. If you click on the image in your library window and then use the applescript it will open up a finder window with the image file, and you can see it's path of where it is.
http://www.apple.com/applescript/iphoto/
Download the scripts from the link
Once downloaded, put the folder "iPhoto Scripts" in ~/Library/Scripts
Now navigate to Applications/Applescript
In that Applescript folder is an icon that says "Install Script menu"
double click that icon to install the Script menu in your menu bar. You might have an item called ScriptMenu.menu instead. follow directions on next link
http://www.appleclub.com.hk/applescript/script_menu/
It will look like a little black scrolled paper.
Or you might have an item named AppleScript Utility.app in the folder. Double click to open it and make sure you have show script menu in menu bar checked.
Now open iPhoto, click on a photo to highlight it
Go to the menu bar and click and hold on the Applescript icon
scroll down to iPhoto Scripts, then scroll to "show image file"
Wait for the Finder top open a finder window showing you where the image is.