MACOS Catalina finder does not update changes to folders and files without force quit
I am hoping for a solution to this question, and also hoping my information will help other if they see it. I spent a lot of time looking for fixes on this issue for older OS versions. There are many problems going back years and not a lot of solutions.
I was able to get folders to update instantly on a corporate Windows based domain by doing the following on
each MAC.
This seemed to work up until at least High Sierra.
1)open terminal from applications --> utilities
2) put in this command below and hit enter
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE
3) log out or reboot
This seems to have stopped working in Catalina. We got three new MAC desktops and this no longer works. I did some research and found that they changed the shell for terminal in this OS. So I tried to change the shell back to the old version in hopes that the same command would work. It did not.
Here is what I tried
- Go to applications --> utilities
- open terminal
- enter chsh -s /bin/bash (this is the command to change to older shell version)
- It should look like
- enter the command that used to work below on number 6
- defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE
- reboot MAC
Does anyone have a solution to this issue? Did the syntax change for Catalina or is there any other way to make this work from the MAC device? I have proven on multiple MAC desktops that my old way actually fixed this issue on our company network. We have all these new desktops and the users are upset because they have to constantly force quit finder to see files they renamed or moved.
Thanks