I'm having trouble with finder finding files. These are files I've just created using a spreadsheet program.
I know the files there because if I try to overwrite them, I get an error message saying that the file exists, and do I want to overwrite it. I'm stumped. Please, any thoughts? Thanks.
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
As further evidence that the files exist is that I can open the files in the spreadsheet using the spreadsheet's file->open menu item.
Your spreadsheet program is potentially confused, or the particular save sequence is not what the developers of the tool intended. With most OS X applications, ⌘S or File > Save would be chosen. Using a different path Save As or some other sequence would result in a collision with the existing name.
Which spreadsheet application, which version of OS X (old OS X worked a little differently here) and what is the command sequence being used to save the spreadsheet files (and which is generating the file collision / overwrite diagnostic)?
Thanks for the reply. I was using LibreOffice and NeoOffice. Then a bizarre thing happened: finder started working!! I'm not trying to figure out why. Let's just leave the matter closed.
strange finder behavior
