Fix Monterey Unnecessary Line Spacing

[mgmartino92]

Screen real estate is such an important thing. So I don't understand after updating to Monterey 12.4 there are these Massive line spacings between finder groups (Monterey 12.4). You can see if it's a folder you use quite often it really adds up and just wastes so much of the window with nothingness where I could see help files instead.

The large spacing between groups seems to be happening in Notes as well. Between the Pinned and unpinned notes. See the new arrow.
(Ignore he black scribbles are just me blocking out personal info.)

Since it seems to be a system thing I thought maybe a could fix it under system preferences, something with display, spacing, accessibility, general…Any ideas?

 

[drcre8tive]

I agree there is way too much space between groups, as well basic list view file names... I used to be able to cruise through folders of list-view images... but with no option to scale this space it just seems wasteful.

 

[Fishrrman]

My guess (only "a guess") is that there's no way to "fix" this...

 

[sgtaylor5]

In Finder, look for this icon on the icon bar.

You are using Groups. If you want you can turn it off with the menu the icon provides: uncheck "Use Groups".

 

[chabig]

there are these Massive line spacings between finder groups

It's just one blank line, which seems like a reasonable way to visually separate groups.

 

[mgmartino92]

My thought would be that maybe you could adjust something in accessibility, or potentially even type something into terminal.

It's just one blank line, which seems like a reasonable way to visually separate groups.

Look at my finder screen shot, they already put a "blank line" when they put the group titles (Previous 7 Days,Previous 30 days, June, May, April)

Now they add another 2 line spaces. 3 spaces overall. I get things should be easy to understand. But this type of spacing makes me feel like I'm reading a children's book. I would rather get more words on the page.