Weird scroll behavior in Folder with actions attached

Question

My downloads folder has an action that is performed when files are added. Now when scrolling down the contents within List mode, it will randomly jump back to whatever file I have selected. Is this expected behavior with folders that have actions attached? Anyway around it?

Answer 1

OS Lucinity wrote:
Wow, you're right! When I delete the .DS_Store file it scrolls properly, until the time when it again adds the .DS_Store file. I'm guessing that the action is corrupting the .DS_Store file.
for f in "$@"
do
touch "$f"
done
it really shouldn't be doing this if you are running this command on added files only. by I guess when the system updates the .DS_store file in this folder it first deletes the current one and only then writes out the new one. I know that's how it works with the plists. then it would probably run this command on .DS_store and that can easily cause the behavior you are seeing. you might try modifying the the folder action to ignore the .DS_store file. that will look like this
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for f in ~/Desktop/3/*
do
if  [ $(basename "$f") != .DS_Store ]
 then
echo $f
fi
done</pre>
I found this app to remove folder actions. Wierd that I don't see a Folder Actions tab in my Finder contextual menu
it's there in the services submenu.
/System/Library/CoreServices/Folder Actions Setup.app
Message was edited by: V.K.