MacOS – Finder wastes /leaves dead vertical space between details and preview panels

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As can be seen in the screenshot there is a large area in the middle of the screen that is unused .

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I have not been able to reclaim that space by resizing the columns: instead the details panel seems to have a fixed proprtion of the Finder window horizontal width. Here is what clicking in the "dead space" does:

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I have been using Finder multiple hours in the past two days to view images . I have killed it (via Activity Monitor) multiple times and even rebooted the machine: nothing changes the behavior.

Am I missing some setting/ knob to reclaim that space?

Best Answer

There should be two ways to reclaim 'dead space':

  • drag column width (works only on separator between 'Name' and column next to it; 'Name' column width 'consumes' dead space width)

  • drag Finder window size (right side) smaller (size reduction starts at expense of 'dead space')

In both cases in order to work pointer must turn into "arrow left and right" (↔)

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