Finder misery when mixing Quick Look and renaming files

I really hate to complain but I’m frustrated beyond belief with the Finder and iCloud.

On my Desktop (on iCloud) I have a folder with about 70 images (300 Mb). I’m working through them and renaming so they’re easier to identify. I select a file, quicklook it, rename to something logical and move to the next file. Problem is when I click the next file it almost always displays the quicklook from the previous file. I can repeat this several times before it (finally) shows the correct preview.

I change the name, hit return and lo and behold I’ve just renamed the previous file. It’s staggeringly bad. I’m now reverting to moving the entire folder onto my local drive where it’s as far from the cloud as it can be. In these days of lightening fast machines and gigabit internet connections it’s really unforgivable the most basic file management is so poor.

Update: Moving to the local drive did nothing - I’m having the same problem. Instead of using the Finder I tried Forklift (which I bought in a bundle package for $3). It works perfectly - hasn’t messed up once. So essentially a $3 ‘shareware’ is better than the trillion dollar company’s primary file manager - dandy…

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I can’t reproduce this in macOS 15.0.1 Sequoia. Whenever I click an item on the desktop (also on iCloud) while in Quick Look, I see the correct image for the next file. And so on.

Generally speaking, if I were doing something like this, I wouldn’t click anyway, but would use the arrow keys.

Now, one thing that occurs to me—how are you sorting the items on your desktop? I normally have them sorted by Last Modified, but I also tried sorting by Name and saw no difference. Perhaps there’s some other sort that’s coming into play?

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I’m on Sonoma - not quite ready to move to Sequoia. They’re sorted by name and it’s 100% repeatable here. The fact it doesn’t do it in Forklift with the same sort order suggests the sorting isn’t an issue.

The Finder’s never been a brilliant tool and since the move to APFS and iCloud it’s anecdotally been worse. I do like the convenience of have Desktop and Documents shared but it’s definitely a burden on performance - despite having a very fast Internet connection here.

Let’s see if someone else can reproduce in Sonoma—I tried again today because I happened to have a folder of images handy for something else, and it still works exactly as expected. And I saw no performance issues associated with syncing to iCloud.

I just tried doing the exact same thing on an iCloud Drive folder of images in the Finder and I could not replicate that behavior. Sonoma 14.6.1. I have the folder sorted by file name in the Finder in list view, but I also tried in icon view and it worked fine there.