Today I had the strange behavior that I added some files to a folder in Finder (that happens to be in dropbox) from Outlook, but Finder did not show them. I could see them from the Open File dialog of Outlook and of Adobe Acrobat Pro XI, but returning to Finder, still not there. Hitting the F5 key to force a refresh, still nothing. Finally, I forced Finder to quit and relaunch, and they showed up. This is OS X Yosemite v10.10.2.
What is going on? Why would Finder not show the new files until forced to restart?
Best Answer
I've known it happen if memory was being paged heavily, or if a drive was particularly full.
F5 has no effect on a Mac, btw, it's a Windows command.
The only real equivalent - to a system that really ought to never need to be refreshed under normal circumstances - is to switch view style…
…from list to column then back again, for instance…
Cmd ⌘ 3 then Cmd ⌘ 2