Catalina: Finder not refreshing with new items.

So, I've seen this happen a few times now. Items saved from (primarily) Adobe products to locations on the disk, such as the Desktop or Documents folder, among others, do not appear as icons or in the finder windows until I relaunch the Finder (I'm using "killall Finder" in Terminal). They do show up in the Adobe file save/open dialogue boxes, though.

I'm not certain this is an Adobe-related issue, but those are the pieces of software I've been using.

I don't have a terribly congested desktop or file system, but it does interface with a couple network shares. I saw a Mojave-related thread from a little while back which suggested deleting the com.apple.finder PLIST, but that file's not present in any of my libraries.

Any help would be appreciated... Although periodically killing the Finder is somewhat satisfying, not knowing that it should be done until I notice a problem is, well, unsettling!

Other info: iMac 5K, 2017. 64GB RAM, various peripherals (2 external hard drives, network shares, OWC thunderbolt 3 dock, Dell secondary display using TB3/DisplayPort adapter).

Thanks! :D

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Posted on Oct 10, 2019 12:39 PM

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Jan 27, 2020 3:29 AM in response to Patric Peter

Did you try the proposed solutions?

unnh!

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Jan 28, 2020 7:53 AM in response to Carlosbcn

I also haven’t experienced the issue for the past couple weeks, but I also haven’t been using Adobe Lightroom as extensively which is when I really noticed it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Dec 14, 2019 11:17 AM in response to DanThe

Download and run Etrecheck. Etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that was developed by one of the most respected users here in the ASC and recommended by Apple Support to provide a snapshot of the system and help identify the more obvious culprits that can adversely affect a Mac's performance.

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and use the Add Text button to include the report in your reply. How to use the Add Text Feature When Posting Large Amounts of Text, i.e. an Etrecheck Report

IMPORTANT:

Before running Etrecheck assign Full Disk Access to Etrecheck so that it can get additional information from the Console and log files for the report:

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Then we can examine the report and see if we can determine the root of the problem.

Jan 14, 2020 7:26 AM in response to Old Toad

Force Quit does not work for me. When Finder is in that status, accessing Network shares turn Finder completely irresponsive. Trying to restart Finder, Finder will not start, no system menu. Only way to reboot is phisycally or with shutdown command.

For me it is clearly a bug. Even if the problem is with a bunch of users that use a specific application, still a Finder bug, not being enough resilent.

The good news

Deleting Finder preferences seems to have fixed the problem to me.

Regards

Dec 24, 2019 7:11 AM in response to Sambarbadonat

Catalina ver. 10.15.2. Same problem.

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Dec 25, 2019 11:58 PM in response to MichaelPhotoart

What's even more strange, Forklift is displaying identical behaviour (except if its functioning depends on finder to begin with).

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