I had a tough one yesterday. A client of mine told me that when he was in the Finder, clicking down through his folder hierarchy, it would suddenly jump him back up to the top level of his drive. It did the same thing if he changed the sorting in the view pane. There didn’t seem to be any correlation between what folder he was accessing. One time he could click down several levels with no problem, the next he would get in two levels and it would jump him back up to the top level. It was making him crazy.
After much searching I came up with no matches, but for Finder issues Apple suggested throwing away the com.apple.finder.plist file in the user’s Library – Preferences folder. I also found a couple that suggested tossing the invisible .ds_store files. Luckily, Onyx (a fantastic utility) has an option to clear all the .ds_store files on a drive.
End result…. it worked! No more jumping – now we just have to see how long it lasts 
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