OS X Finder randomly displays some PDF and EPUB files as folders

There seems to be a bug in the latest OS X update Tahoe 26.2: In the Finder window, some documents are shown as folders, when they clearly are not, but then if you scroll past them and return, they sometimes magically appear with the correct icon. Seems to happen mostly with pdf and epub files, especially if they're tagged.


Is there a solution for this? Perhaps this gets addressed in the next update...

Posted on Feb 2, 2026 10:29 AM

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Feb 2, 2026 10:38 AM in response to Brightst

Brightst wrote:

There seems to be a bug in the latest OS X update Tahoe 26.2: In the Finder window, some documents are shown as folders, when they clearly are not, but then if you scroll past them and return, they sometimes magically appear with the correct icon. Seems to happen mostly with pdf and epub files, especially if they're tagged.

Is there a solution for this? Perhaps this gets addressed in the next update...


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OS X Finder randomly displays some PDF and EPUB files as folders

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