Win 11 Explorer strange behavior when renaming or scrolling

Question

I notice that if I have a folder being viewed (in the right pane) and in the left pane I scroll down to find another folder, every 10 seconds or so it'll snap back to make sure that the folder currently opened is in view. It means that if you're trying to navigate your way down a long list of folders in the left pane, if you don't reach the folder you're looking for within 10 seconds, it'll auto-scroll back to the open folder and you have to scroll again. It's very annoying.

Same deal with renaming a file via F2 or long-click or right-click-rename. As you're making your changes to the filename every 10 seconds it'll throw away your current changes and go back to the original name while staying in edit-name mode. You really have to get the changes done within 10 seconds or you have to start again. I find myself having to rename things in 10 second chunks. For example, if I want to delete the last 40 characters and then type a new 20 characters - I have to first delete the last 40 then save, then edit a second time and type 10 of the characters then save, then type the last 10 and save. Trying to do it all in one go doesn't work.

The filename editing situation only happens when the drive involved is a remote network mapped drive.

The left pane scroll situation happens regardless of whether it's network mapped or drive C even.

Answer 1

I've seen that file name editing thing happen to me when I am renaming a file in a OneDrive synced folder. I believe in that case the folder view refreshes when there's a state change (like the file finishes uploading and the overlay symbol changes from the 'in progress' to 'cloud' symbol). It annoys me all the same.

I've not seen it happen in other folders, network shares, and the left navigation like you are encountering. Just to be clear my left-nav is entirely default settings, the "expand to current folder" is not on for me. Likewise I tried exploring to a network share, tapped F2 to initiate renaming, and it kept the editable text for at least 2 minutes (abnormally long time to keep the text area open but I wanted to see if it would eventually stop the rename operation like it does when I'm trying to rename a onedrive file while it's being synced, it did not).

In any case, it sounds to me like something is causing Explorer to refresh the view, and if it's not OneDrive then I'd suspect there must be something else. I don't have a specific pinpoint thing to check but I'd try working under process of elimination. End every running process you can and see if it occurs. Or disable everything in the Task Manager (ctrl+shift+escape) Startup tab, then reboot and try with all those off.

Answer 2

I had the same problem, I installed FreeCommander to access files because it was refreshing every 5 secs...
I figured out it was the program "Synology Drive" that I use with my NAS, killing it solved the refreshing problem but I still didn't found a solution to use this app to sync my files

EDIT
Solved clean installing the program, the simple "reinstall" was not working