How to disable the scroll position saving in Finder?

Question

By default, the Finder always saves the last scroll position in folders and restores it when these folders are opened again later.

How can I disable this feature? I want all folders to always open in the Finder scrolled from the beginning. High Sierra is installed.

This is not only a problem in 10.13 but also 10.12. Finder keeps remembering an horizontal scroll offset, which is really annoying. — F Lekschas, Commented Mar 8, 2018 at 23:19

F Lekschas · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-08 23:31:13Z

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I found the answer here. In summary:

Open com.apple.finder.plist in ~/Library/Preferences (Check here if you don't know how to edit this file)
Locate StandardViewSettings > ListViewSetting and set scrollPositionY (or scrollPositionX) set to 0. (Note, there are other setting where the scroll position pops up so it depends a little bit where you experience the problem)
Save that preference
Restart the finder: hold down the option key and do a right-click on the Finder's icon in the dock and choose Relaunch.

answered Mar 8, 2018 at 23:31

F Lekschas

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Unfortunately, it does not help. I have all the «scrollPositionY» values in «.plist» file already equal to zero — obviously, this setting only affects the Finder scrolling position by default, when a particular folder has never been opened.
– Sergei Moskvin
Commented Mar 10, 2018 at 5:52

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