Comment by lobsterthief
15 days ago
Ah, this makes sense. Am I hallucinating that columns widths used to be remembered many years back? In other words, in column view, if you resized a column for a given folder, close Finder, and reopen to that folder—it would remain the same width.
Finder is mostly unusable for any directory containing long filenames since it doesn’t remember this. But I swear it used to. Am I misremembering?
FWIW, there is a hidden option to automatically resize columns to accommodate the longest (up to a point) visible file name:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/26/hidden-pref-col...
I just tested and for me they seem to be remembered for my Downloads folder. Weirdly, at first it didn't seem to be remembered, but then I pressed ⌘+J to look at the view settings, and now when I change a column width it seems to be remembered...
Weird! I’ll test this out, thanks