Mac File Naming
My Mac sometimes does not consistently recognize the fact that I have renamed a file. When this happens, I experience delays when using Finder to find the file using the new file name. Moreover, when I do find it in a Finder window, it shows the old name. Except that - if I use "get info" for the file - I find out that it actually has the new name I expected, even though it still does not show up that way.
As an example, if I use the MacOS Screen capture facility to capture an error or diagnostic message, it gets a name that will not be helpful when looking for it later. So I rename it to something more useful. Which is pretty sketchy, when Finder seems to think it still has the original name.
If I later see a file with a name that looks like it was created by screen capture, that I did not recently create, I might naively assume I would have changed the name if I wanted to keep it and away it goes.
Is there some kind of "meta-naming" used on a Mac that might not be updated when changing the name of a file? If so, what do I have to do to fix that?
I noticed that Spotlight has a similar problem, except that Spotlight is faster in finding the right file with the wrong name.
That is one of the reasons I ask about "meta-naming" because Spotlight seems to explicitly convert the file name to a has of some kind and that hash returns a file that is the right file, with the wrong name.
This seems to hint that there is some sort of indexing going on and the index does not consistently get updated when the file name is changed.
Mac Pro