Maddening "View as List" quirk in OS 8.1 (& higher?)

I recently upgraded from System 7.6.1 to OS 8.1 and I find when I set up a
preference for a folder to View as List, the folder usually opens with the
second file from the top at the top instead of the first file at the top.
Is there any cure for this? It's been driving me nuts to have to scroll up
all the time just to see the file at the very top. (It's apparently not due
to any third party extensions I have installed because I tried booting up
with all extensions off and it did the same thing.)

 

Perhaps you can change the system font to 9 instead of 10 points?

Mark

 

You mean the font for views? I already have it set to Geneva 9 (I hated the
Geneva 10, which seems to be the default. Geneva 10 still shows up in the
"Get Info" boxes though).

I have the System font set to Chicago 12 (through the Kaleidescope control
panel). I don't want to change that to a 9 point font -- that would look
like crap.

 

That always bugged me as well, and it never did get fixed. It only
happens if your list font size is 9pt, goes away if you use the default
list font of Geneva 10 (which unfortunately doesn't look quite as nice
as Geneva 9 on screen).

FWIW the list views work just fine in Mac OS X.

R.

 

Ah, I see Rich. I guess I'll have to put up with the lesser of two evils
then because there's no way I'm using that 10 pt. default list font.

I've tried putting an "Empty Folder" at the top of my list-viewed folders
but I was hoping someone had a better workaround.

I'm starting to wish I'd just stayed at 7.6.1 now. I mainly upgraded so I
could use the Explorer 5.1.7 browser, but that turned out to have a couple
of bugs I didn't like and I'm back to Explorer 5.0 now (which I was able to
run under 7.6.1). I can now use Java chatrooms on the Web, but I rarely
wanted to do that before.