Finder / Folder Content not refreshing when copying and creating files.

Found a solution on a different thread. Just delete this file and relaunch your finder.

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

It worked for me.

I made a reproduction video and logged an official bug (https://bugreport.apple.com/web/?problemID=48545365) not sure if people will actually be able to view it except Apple people.

Nobody's looked at the bug even though I logged it a week ago, sad.

Here's a link to the video showing the bug, at https://youtu.be/s8J0PSgxd4A

I’ve been using Command-Shift G and typing some random characters to get round this. I hope Apple fix this one soon, it’s very annoying.

I just tried something that may have solved the problem (perhaps temporarily, but please see if this makes any difference on your system).

In System Preferences, Accessibility, Mouse & Trackpad, move the slider towards the "short" end, away from the "long" end. See if that makes a difference.

I'm experiencing all of the above plus my sidebar just decided to stop showing Documents, Downloads, Desktop + more folders. Seriously considering getting a Surface Laptop now.

***** I updated to latest and it's even worse. 10.14.4.

Files aren't appearing in Downloads or Desktop in most Finder windows. Seriously this hasn't been fixed yet.

Sometimes reselecting Date Added or Date Modified filter will temporarily refresh it to display newly created files but most times it doesn't.

Also no cover flow since High Sierra and no option to increase image thumbnail size like in Windows Explorer.

Windows Explorer is like a decade more advanced than whatever Apple is doing with Finder, it's so sad because I value the UNIX command line and vector graphics rendering so much but this issue is making me so unproductive with my work.

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I have this problem in Mojave, Mid 2015 15" Macbook Pro too and it's super annoying. I can see the files if I browse them from any other program (Safari, for example), it's just Finder not showing them. If I relaunch Finder, it will show them all.

Thanks for the tip: relaunching worked for me, too... but that's a stinky way to fix a problem. It just started yesterday for me—I had not had it before and I updated to Mojave a couple of weeks ago....

This worked for me but I found my customizations for the sidebar in finder were reset. I unchecked my user folder, desktop, and one other. When I deleted the plist and relaunched, it came back but the directory listings were correct. Weird.

I have noticed this a couple of months ago, but could not find anyone else talking about it online so assumed it was just me.

That finder is not reliably indicating the contents of folder is deeply concerning to anyone who values their files. The way you treat an empty folder is quite different to how you treat one filled with valuable content.

In the following gif I am able to list files in terminal that are not showing in Finder.

https://twitter.com/shdli/status/1058489830135476225

Running open -R [filename] on the file then makes the file appear in Finder. I recall the difference between the hidden and unhidden file was in one of the extended attributes, but will have to update this post when I reproduce it.

Same issue here. Relaunching Finder resolves the issue, but shouldn't be necessary. It's important to be able to verify if you've saved an important file by seeing Finder confirm the fact in real time.

Just discovered this on my 2018 MBP on Mojave on a local drive.. what the actual heck Apple ? This is basic functionality. The Apple-G trick works, and so does blowing away the finder prefs, but this is sort of unacceptable.

Same problem here, since I got my brand new MBP 2018 a month ago. When downloading and copying files on the hard drive for a while (images and font files in my case, speaking as a designer) at some point Finder just won't update anymore and not show them. Having to go through relaunches.

Can't believe these issues with brand new machines retailing at over €3000,-. The machine has also switched itself off overnight a couple of times already although being plugged in ("Your computer was shut down because of a problem" - ah right, in sleepy standby mode, eh?) and I've had huge Bluetooth issues too. It's such a massive quality difference to my last MBP Late-2013, which ran like a true pro until I got this new one. Apple, sort this out and show yourself worth the premium we pay you!

Wow, thanks a lot for your efforts. This is exactly what we've been experiencing.

Clearly it's also NOT due to hardware, as this is being experienced by people like myself with brand new MBPs and those with older machines from the past years.

I really wonder what the 'community mods' on here are doing aside from making snide and wisecracking remarks at people reporting bugs and problems. If no one has even looked at your bug reporting, what can we say?

On the other hand, the issue has been remarked upon on a couple of other threads as a side incident next to other more pressing problems.

Are.... you on the wrong thread ? That does absolutely nothing to solve the file system not showing files problem ( and there's no reason to think it would?). Maybe it solves your drag-and-drop problem, but that's somewhat off-topic i'm afraid.

I'm not on the wrong thread! But that change suddenly did show the change in the number of files in a folder. Before I moved the slider, dragging a file to a folder would show that the folder had no items in it. Now the number shows up as 1 file or is incremented by one.