invisible file appears after creating new folder?

[ATG204]

sometimes after unstuffing a .sitx file only a folder/file or two will appear, when i create a new folder in the that folder all of the files stuffed will show up...wtf?

i have had this issue from time to time with clients and today uploaded a file to a clients ftp site. they insisted that it didn't show up.

i asked them to create a new folder on their ftp site and poof, there it was...any ideas what causes this?

[Jezza]

What's the OS you're using? I see it occasionally where I'm at now. Close the window and open the window and amazingly there it is.

In a related thing, sometimes when I distill a pdf to my desktop the pdf won't appear until I quit Distiller but will show in a finder window. Using a G4 and running last Panther. Don't get it on my Tiger machine at home...

[Earendil]

I agree. Panther is notorious for slow finder updates. Files from Acrobat and unstuffed/unzipped.

I also had considerable frustration with Apple Mail in Panther. I would grab something from the net or an ftp site or disk, copy it to a destination and would ultimately have to quit and restart the mail client to get the file to appear in the attachment browse window.

So far, no problems with Tiger.

[Joe]

Tiger is just as bad if not worse with the Finder window updates. I remember the good old days of OS 9 that all folders updated continually. It's amazing they are up to 10.4.10 and have still not fixed this.

[Jezza]

I can't remember it happening in Tiger at all on my Intel Mac. I have often thought that the Finder could do with a 'refresh button', though I think that's a little klunky. Depending on how you navigate the Finder, the Forward/Back buttons can help make the display redraw

[seetomtype]

I've found that clicking on the desktop tends to update the Finder after
Distilling a file. Still not as fast as on the FeeCee, but it can help. To update
my open Finder windows faster I switch views. A quick Cmmd + 1, then a
Cmmd + 2 (or + 3 or whatever combo you want to use), will update the window.

[Jezza]

I've tried Cmd1, Cmnd2 and don't always get the result, but yes it can work, a bit like pressing F7 in Quark 6 to get the screen to redraw.

Clicking on the desktop after distilling on the other hand, never works for me on my work machine, I have to quit Distiller.

[seetomtype]

Good god, man, you must be cursed

[Jezza]

Originally Posted by seetomtype

Good god, man, you must be cursed

Certainly feels like it at times