New files don't appear in Finder in Yosemite

Just in case anyone views this thread again...I'm having this same issue with files and screenshots using Sierra 10.12.4. Bought the MacBook Pro early in 2017 so it's fairly new!

Keeping All My Files open in a finder window appears to help 🙂 I've never had this issue before and I've been a mac user for 8 years. Started using dropbox regularly a couple months ago so that's possibly part of the problem?

Hope anyone who comes across this finds this useful 🙂

Thank you for this workaround. This has been vexing me lately (and your response is nearly 2 years old!) and it seems to be getting somewhat worse. Creating a new file and deleting it is the "solution" I've been looking for.

Hello, i fix this issue 🙂 by turn my hard disk to two partitions. From utilities> disk utilitiy then choose hard disk and select partition the plus botton ➕ . It will get all your system and files into first partition and you will have new partition you can move your files there.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! You describing this was a lifesaver. This just happened to me last night. I thought all of my work was lost because it wasn't in my recent files, spotlight or anywhere I could actually find on my drive. I did find it in my Office 2011 Auto Recovery even though I thought I saved it in my documents folder. But I only found this after opening back up excel to open a file.

I'm having this same problem on my 13" Late-2013 Retina Macbook Pro with Yosemite 10.10.3 installed.

Anyone found any solutions to the problem?

same here, i am fully updated on osx and all apps on my mid 2013 macbook air, and when working in photoshop, word, excel, etc I don't see my files in finder for several minutes (5 to 10). they do show up if i close then reopen the app...but only after i reopen it. and its not consistent, like every time i use photoshop or every time i create a new file, etc. btw i dont use dropbox so its not related to that.

this is a new behavior that just started with the 10.10.3 update.

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I have been experiencing this problem for the last few releases of OS X at least. I find that keeping a finder window open at the "All My Files" level (i.e. CMD-N in the finder) will force other finder windows to update. It seems this might be a spotlight issue and that keeping the AMF window open forces an update. It still takes a few seconds but it does update eventually.

I have a Late 2012 27" iMac. 3.4GHz Intel Core i7. Running OSX 10.10.3

I’ve been having this problem intermittently too.

For example, the other day I wanted to add an attachment in Mail that I had just created. But when I navigated to where I’d saved it - it wasn’t there. I could, however, see it in Finder when I clicked on the Today cog. So I knew I’d saved it to the right folder. I got around the problem by closing Mail and re-opening it. After that I could see the file I wanted to add as an attachment. But, obviously, I shouldn’t have needed to do that!

I’ll try CMD-N from now on and see if it makes a difference

I’ll also submit feedback to Apple as advised

Just one other thing:

I’ve found another forum that discusses a related issue of opening folders and finding them, apparently, to be empty. I’ve had this problem too:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/318597-finder-yosemite-ti mes-not-showing-files-folders.html

One member (Daedac) offers this solution:

As far as I can tell, clearing the cloudd metadata worked for me. I used:

cp ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/CloudKitMetadata* ~/Desktop/cloudd; rm ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/CloudKitMetadata*; killall cloudd

- I haven’t tried it myself because I’m wary of putting strange code into the Terminal. But I thought I’d bring it to the attention of members of this forum.

Question for all of you. Do you all have Dropbox installed? I haven't necessarily experienced what the original posted experienced with apps, but I do have this problem with screenshots. Take a screenshot (yes I am doing the correct keystrokes) and sometimes they appear via finder and sometimes they don't, but show up later. This started with Yosemite. I also have Dropbox installed. I am wondering if this could be the common amongst all of us?

I have this issue as well and it is maddening. I usually end up using the "Find" to find the file. I also have Dropbox installed. It started for me when I updated my 2012 Mac Book Pro to Yosemite. Dropbox was installed on Lion too, but there were no issues of this nature.

I have had this problem too. It occurs when transferring files through any means other than the Finder, such as FTP, shell/command-line tools. This is really a show-stopper level bug that needs to be fixed.

To make these invisible files visible, in Finder, create a new folder, then delete it. This will refresh Finder's list and show the new files.