Refresh Finder is ready to refresh Leopard's Finder, too

My problem is that the Finder in Leopard keeps autorefreshing all the time so i get a lot of icon blinks that piss the hell out of me and slows everything down. The icons blink every other second or so it is so annoying. Anyone knows a solution for this?

I noticed that when i scan images to a folder, i need to reopen the folder each time to see the latest scanned image. This is really annoying. This Software is realy a life saver!

Mine has auto refreshed fine since tiger.

"Hi I'm a PC. Whenever you need to refresh a window just hit F5 or Right Click and select Refresh."

"And I'm a Mac.....I can't do that without a third party app."


I guess it's not as funny as I thought....

this is great, but it still doesn't help the "icon preview" bug that seems to crop up frequently. example: download a few images from a website, then look at them in the finder. some have icon previews, some don't. refreshing the page doesn't do anything. select them all, move them to the trash, and then "undo" the trash move and they'll all now show their icon previews. very annoying.

Just because you aren't seeing it doesn't mean it isn't happening. I've noticed a few times over the last few days that the Finder isn't updating the window contents. I just moved an app from Downloads to Applications and the app was still visible in Downloads. Get Info even worked, but it couldn't be moved to the trash. Leaving the folder and returning to it caused the view to update and the app was gone. Seems to be worse in Leopard than in recent versions of Tiger.

The other one Desky (for changing the desktop picture by dragndrop) is ready too: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23310/desky

Actually under Leopard refreshing isn't necessary anymore.

The Finder has auto-refreshed since Tiger. It hooks into the same filesystem events that Spotlight uses to tell it when a file needs to be reindexed. You only need to manually refresh Finder windows for network shares, which the Finder can't receive updates for.

Does the Leopard Finder still have lags in updating?? I would have thought this was fixed by now.

For those who don't want to load a third-party app for this, this trick works pretty well: just switch to another view and back. You can use the command keys for this. Command-1 = icon view, Command-2 = list view, and Command-3 = column view. (And in 10.5, I think Command-4 = coverflow.) I'm usually in column view, so a quick press of command-1, command-2 refreshes the window. (You can press and hold the command key: press and hold command, press 1, press 2, release command.) Like anything else, once you get used to doing it, it's a snap.