Catalina: Finder not refreshing with new items.

I'm using 6 shares on 3 different servers, one of them is used for time machine backup. They work fine. I had problem with time machine and shutdown hang because of how Catalina handle old backup. After reformat and creating completely new tm backup everything is fine. I'm lucky I didn't have any important data on old one. When copying large number of files I have problem with external usb drive which have been disconnected several times. That never happened before Catalina. I also couldn't connect to drive attached to router which works without issues with any other computer and device in the house. Finder refresh don't work on system data drive. It works only if folder is under Users/UserName folder. However finder refresh works fine with network shares and usb attached drives.

Mac Mini 2018 i7, 64GB RAM, 512GB SSD.

Have you run any "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up" or anti-virus apps?

This version 10.15.2 seems to have fixed the problem on my side too. Fingers crossed: -)

Post the full report so we can evaluate it and look of anything unusual. Be sure to copy and post the report as referenced in my earlier post.

I have a similar issue since I updated to Catalina. I see files that I created today in the finder, but when I want to include them in an email (or send through another program) and I open the finder through that program, I only see files from yesterday and older... I cannot find the file you mention, so still figuring out how to deal with it. After a while they seem to appear. Somethimes when I move them to another location.

Same situation here. Finder of OSX Catalina is not refreshing.

Idid:

delete /Users/YourUserNameHere/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist without success.

I ended up relaunching the Finder.

Thank you Apple for your Help

Jumping in to say, "Same!"

I bought a new MacBook Pro, I've had it a week, and this has happened several times. File type and location don't seem to matter. I've had this happen when moving audio files, text, PDF, etc. This morning I downloaded a PDF to a Google Drive folder and I can see the file in "fan" view from the dock but when I open the folder in Finder, the PDF is not there. There just seems to be a big time delay. I haven't tried killing Finder so for me I just wait a few minutes and the file turns up. But that's still a big problem!

(And in the time writing this the file in question still isn't showing up in Finder so I'm not sure how long the "delay" tends to be)

Same issue, downloading files via FTP to Finder doesn't display files.

Using Coda / Transmission / saving from Google Chrome/ pretty much everything....

Force Quitting finder corrects the files not displaying issue:

Mac Book pro 2014

--- Also same issue with external drives as is the issue on the internal drive ---

There are replies missing? Last I saw, 51 people flagged this as an issue. Not sure how many comments there were.

I'm curious if this has manifested in other ways for users.

I've had two issues come up since getting my 2019 MacBook that also seem like delays. One was with typing, it seemed like there was a stall and I could see all the letters I typed but in the wrong order. See screenshot example.

The other was with dragging music files from Finder to VLC and the playlist duration not updating. It would just hang at whatever duration the first track was an eventually it would correct itself if I deleted tracks. These could be isolated or unrelated incidents but they never happened on older MacBooks and Air's that I've used. This is the first time I've ever bought an Apple product for myself (the others were from jobs) so I'm disappointed to have problems less than a week in.

I get this too. Often when I run a OSX shell command that creates new files in Downloads, they do not appear. I've tried closing finder windows but this doesn't fix the problem.

OSX shell sees them OK when I run

ls -l 

for example.

For me, Finder will not work on the first bootup of the day: there is no initial response when clicking on Dock icons, and when there is things open incredibly slowly (with spinning beachball action). I have to kill/relaunch Finder before things even start to begin working. This problem started after the latest Catalina update (10.15.1), on a 27" late-2014 iMac.