I’m running MacOS 26.2 on my MacBook Pro, and I’ve just encountered an issue that I’m not sure how to resolve. I have some long paths in the Finder, which includes files with long names. I have the option “Resize columns to fit filenames” enabled, but as you can see from the screenshot that’s not working. Also, because of the scrollbar’s positioning, I can’t manually drag the column width so that I can see the full filename. Any suggestions on how to resolve this annoying issue?
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Highlight the enclosing folder and temporarily switch to list view, where the filename is the first column, allowing you to use the full width of the window to see the full names of the files. The status bar at the bottom will still show the path.
Yes its very annoying! See this recent thread.
Ah, so this is a known thing. Good to know that I’m not losing my mind! Thanks! 
Sure, that works, but I want to see the Preview of the photos that I’m looking at, and sadly List view doesn’t do it. I can switch to Icon or Gallery view, but neither of those fix the issue. 
In list view click on the image you want to preview, hit space bar
Yep, of course, Quick Look is awesome, but is tedious in this situation.
Just sent a bug report to Apple on this – maybe there is a third part software or Terminal command to disable the horizontal scroll bar or make them thinner?
Sent to Apple:
Scroll bars makes resizing Finder windows columns (almost) impossible in Tahoe.
To handle Finder windows effectively, one need to have scroll bars active. Best way to handle files in Finder Windows is by using the column layout. If you access a file inside a folder hierarchy (as is most often the case), you will have multiple columns shown and very often you need to resize manually columns width to be able to navigate most effectively. With Tahoe this has becomes close to impossible and is one of the main drawbacks of using Tahoe for me and my customers. This needs to be addresses by makes the croll bars thinner or maybe better make the handle higher at the bottom of columns so one can adjust the column width. As it is now it is totally inaccessible and the only workaround is to make the Window very long, which is hard on portable Macs.
Apparently Apple made some fixes to the column width sizing in 26.3. I’m linking to Jeff Johnson who shows the changes, but also explains that there is still more work to be done.
In Tahoe 26.3, Apple now always shows the handles at the bottom of the scroll bar for resizing when scroll bars are present. There are some inconsistencies in the length of the vertical scroll bar if you play around with showing and hiding the Status and Path Bars at the bottom, but there is always a handle at the bottom.
By the way, you may always use column layout with persistent scroll bars, but some of us are perfectly happy to use neither and operate pretty effectively. Please refrain from insisting that your way is the only way.
I think you misunderstood what people have been complaining on. Anyway it was mostly fixed at the end of the day with the 26.3 release.
Jerry (via iPhone)