Finder window does not refresh

Anybody got any updates on this? I'm experiencing the same issue on a Yosemite box. At the moment the user is relaunching finder but obviously this isn't a long term fix

Same here.

I have a imac 27inch running Yosemite.

Whenever I create a new file in an application, it doesnt show up in the finder on its specific location.

It takes relaunching or in best case reopening a fresh finder window and navigating to the specific folder and a lot of patience.

This is really interrupting my workflow and I hope to get feedback soon from Apple.

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Feedback

Or you can use your Apple ID to register with this site and go the Apple BugReporter. Supposedly you will get an answer if you submit feedback.

Feedback via Apple Developer

Update: Well my MBP Late 2011, was grey screening and splitting in half, rebooting etc.. so took it back for the GPU warranty thing and had the whole logic board replaced, however that was not the issue it was one of the RAM modules that was faulty, the finder not refreshing issue seems to be resolved for me now after the faulty module was removed or logic board replaced strange indeed.

Check out "Death to .DS_Store" https://www.aorensoftware.com/blog/2011/12/24/death-to-ds_store/

You can download the App that prevents all .DS_Store files from ever being created.

I have exactly the same problem, and I tried some suggestions I found online but none of them worked for me:

• Deleting Finder's plist file and restarting Finder;
• Deleting .DS_Store;
• Repairing permissions and disk;
• And holding cmd+option+p+r while booting up.

But I did find out that this problem will not persist in a newly created account in the same machine.

I verified this by using the `touch` command in terminal: in my original account " $ touch ~/Desktop/test " results in no change on my desktop, while in the new account after the same command a new file named "test" will appear on the desktop.

I think this problem is hardware independent, as I've experienced it both on my MBP (mid-2010) and rMBP (mid-2013), and happens on both Mavericks and Yosemite.

Interesting, although the machine I'm seeing it on is a clean build with a new account. I could test by creating a new account and see if it has the same effect.

Booting in safe mode into my original account also provides a temporary fix. I then reverts to normal boot, and the problem comes back. Therefore I think it could be due to some software I installed, or we both installed.

And I also checked third party kernel extension ( " $ kextstat | grep -v com.apple " ), the only 4 I have are form Little Snitch, Parallels, nVidia CUDA and DAEMON Tools. Don't think any of them could be responsible for this problem.

And between my original account and the new account, there are differences in the console output relating to Finder every time I restart Finder.

• In the new account there isn't any messages;
• In my original there are always following 4 messages every time I restart Finder:

3/22/15 11:46:59.937 PM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.Finder[5165]) Service exited due to signal: Terminated: 15

3/22/15 11:47:00.057 PM Finder[5588]: assertion failed: 14C1514: libxpc.dylib + 97940 [876216DC-D5D3-381E-8AF9-49AE464E5107]: 0x89

3/22/15 11:47:01.103 PM Finder[5588]: The function ‘CGContextErase’ is obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall degradation of system performance.

3/22/15 11:47:02.048 PM Finder[5588]: Attempt to use XPC with a MachService that has HideUntilCheckIn set. This will result in unpredictable behavior: com.apple.backupd.status.xpc

I fixed my problem by re-indexing all my files in spotlight.

Thanks a lot Youxin, this fixed it for me as well.

Same here.

I'm seeing it on a Mac mini running 10.8.5 with OSX Server 2.2.5 (so this problem is not limited to Yosemite).

New files placed into a folder inside /Pictures don't appear in a Finder window. Just noticed it today.

The Date Modified field against the folder does indicate the time that the most recent file was added to the folder, but when I view the folder contents, recent files are missing. As of this writing, 40 or so files added within the last 5 hours are AWOL.

All files are visible if I list the folder contents using Terminal.

The files are being written into the folder via FTP. They're coming from a security camera that writes to the folder using FTP.

As suggested by another poster on this thread, I tried disabling Spotlight (put my Home folder into Spotlight's Privacy list, and then removed it).

Spotlight then reindexed my entire home folder. This brought the view of the problematic folder current, but an hour later, the problem persists.

I had the same experience as a programmer using Sublime Text Editor. New files were not showing up on the Sublime sidebar. At first I thought it was Sublime having issues, but then later realized that new files (and file deletions, and file size changes) weren't showing up in the finder as well. The problem persisted even after turning off all login programs, all applications, trashing the application support for sublime, and rebooting. I noticed the problem was specific to a certain folder (my work folder, in fact) and its subdirectories. This makes me think it is possibly an OS bug somehow preventing filesystem events from being registered by applications. Deleting the finder plist and .DS_store files did not resolve the situation. Force quits of finder (or respectively, restarting Sublime) did refresh the view (resp., update the sidebar), but this of course does not count as a solution.

I was able to fix the problem by going to finder and duplicating my entire work folder, trashing the original one, and renaming back. After this, finder refreshes occurred as well as Sublime sidebar updates. For the time being, it appears to work. Perhaps Youxin's spotlight reindexing solution would have also worked. I'll try that if the problem re-occurs.

Why there isn't a Mac equivalent of F5 on Windows I have no idea.

However, for me, the quick fix is to rename a file in the directory (add a dash or space or something). I'm guessing saving a new file would work too, or duplicating an existing file.

This forces finder to refresh the directory and the files all appear.

This will help you:

> http://soderhavet.com/refresh/refresh-finder/

I have this issue for years, unresolved, across different systems and OS. Apple SHOULD take a look at this.