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Files not showing up in Finder (Catalina)

Files saved from Adobe Photoshop CC this morning can be seen in, and opened from, 'recent files' in Photoshop, but not visible in finder, or Spotlight.

I'm a frequent flyer, so accustomed to the hierarchy of the folders and have never had this problem before. I've tried searching by file name and as one of the files is still open in Photoshop I have checked save-as to check I likely saved it to the intended folder. All is as is it should otherwise be.

When I go to an online file transfer service I can see the files in the expected folder and seemingly upload them (so am now sending them to myself and expect to find them in Downloads, so not panicking about losing them entirely, but clearly can't work like this.

Any ideas on what is going on here and how to fix it would be really welcome.

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 6, 2019 3:26 AM

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Wallpopper Author

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Posted on Nov 6, 2019 3:49 AM

OK, so I tried command, alt, esc with no success, couldn't restart Finder from Utilities and opted to reboot. So the files are now there in the Finder folder where they always should have been.

It'd be good to know more, even though the problem is resolved for now. My solution naturally resulted in the loss of the history states in the files I'd been working on, so I'd not always be willing to jump straight to this option.

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