Mail Finder doesn't find new files

When I save a new file to a folder and then to add it as an attachment to a message in Mail, the finder window in Mail doesn't show the new file. I have to exit and restart Mail for the finder window to find the new file. What's going on?

I often have the same problem, but the annoying workaround I came up with is a little quicker and less annoying than relaunching Mail. I just go into the finder (I don't even need to close the "Attach" window) and change anything about the file—change a single character in the name, move it to another folder, or the desktop, etc.—and the "Attach" window promptly sees it.

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Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library".
After that you can drag it to your sidebar for easy access.

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I tried using finder to find all files with "Adium" in the name. I simply typed "Adium" in the search box and made sure that "This Mac" and "File Name" were selected in the finder window. There is an application called "Adium" installed on my computer.
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What does it mean when the finder doesn't find things?

Thanks for the answer. I am as mystified as you about the choices Apple made -- it dramatically reduces my confidence in everything else Leopard reports to me. I could go along with their choices if there were transparency and symmetry in them, but giving special and near-invisible special treatment to certain files like that in a search algorithm, of all places, seems irresponsible.
If the Preference pane listed these strange choices it would have been a little less weird, at least they would have been in a reasonable place.
I will follow one of your most sage pieces of advice -- to let Apple know that some of us really do want to know what's going on and aren't just content with oversimplified, consumer glitz.

Finder doesn't show new folders/files

I've just created some new folders and files using the "save as" dialog from within Photoshop CS 8.0. Irritatingly, they don't show up in Finder. I can find them using the File>Open dialog in PS, or using, for example, Transmit.
This seems like a very basic function of Finder which is clearly BROKEN.
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Message was edited by: NancyN

It finally occurred to me to relaunch Finder (duh!) and now it shows the new files/folders.

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I run an online business and we store customer information in Excel files (Office for Mac 2011). When I search for names in finder, it only shows the files from 2011 or older. New Excel sheets (one is created each day for the days orders) are not found. I have one open right now with the name Trevor Alin. When I search Trevor Alin in Finder, it returns only an old sheet from 2011, it won't show todays file. The same is true for files from months ago.
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Console is just a log reader…
/Applications/Utilities/Console
You are probably thinking of Terminal
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal
I think you may need to post to Launchbar's support unless someone else can help, I don't use it & don't know if it only uses Spotlight's index for finding items.
http://www.obdev.at/support/index.html?product=LB
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Drop & Drop file onto Mail icon doesn't create new message

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Hi,
Works properly here, but remember seeing other reports. I will keep looking for earlier topics and resolution, if any, for those reporting.
Meanwhile, create a New User Account on your Mac, and as that New User open Mail and set up one email account as a test. If a POP account, set it to leave messages in the server after download.
See the following if not familiar with adding a new user account:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8235.html
This will test the app itself vs your current User Account.
Ernie

Finder doesn't show all files

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santra, use EasyFind or Find File instead. BY default, Apple's own Finder/spotlight doesn't search everywhere and doesn't find everything (Mac fanboys will tell you this is a feature and is so intelligent that some people can't understand how smart it is; I prefer to think of it as a defect).
Easyfind is here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8707
Find File is here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10906315
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limey1
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
It's a while since i used v5 but I think this is true.
Whereas with early version of iPhoto there was a separate folder for each album, starting at v5 the app doesn;t do that. Instead the album information is stored as part of the main database file. At heart, it's a direction to the app to display certain pics together. The advantage being that a single pics can be many, many albums with no wasted disk space.
Regards
TD

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This happens e.g. when I unrar archives created some time ago: the files or folders coming out of the archive get their original date, which is earlier than today.
I can see those files and folders without problems in a terminal (using ls). But they don't show up in Finder when I visit the same directory.
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Finder doesn't show socket files

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santra, use EasyFind or Find File instead. BY default, Apple's own Finder/spotlight doesn't search everywhere and doesn't find everything (Mac fanboys will tell you this is a feature and is so intelligent that some people can't understand how smart it is; I prefer to think of it as a defect).
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I just experienced the exact same issue Julie. I had never had this happen to me before (that I'm aware of), but it just happened now.
The one thing I did differently (which I thought might have a bearing on it), was after creating the spreadsheet, when I went to save it, I wanted it to appear at the top of a long list of files in a particular folder I have on my desktop, so I began the filename with three spaces. The filename I actually used in this case was "<space><space><space>Timeline". The file does not appear in Finder, nor does it come up in a Spotlight search. The only way I can access the file now is by using Numbers "Open Recent" command.
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Finder doesn't find all files

Finder doesn't list all folders in a folder.
The "ls" Terminal command does.
For example, when looking for a group called "Gladys Knight & the Pips" in my itunes library it is not shown in the folder listing using Finder.
Here is a snippet from Finder:
However, when using terminal commands, it is found.
Bobs-iMac:iTunes bobs$ pwd
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Gladys Knight _ Gladys Knight & the Pips
./iTunes Media/Music/Gladys Knight _ Gladys Knight & the Pips:
./iTunes Media/Music/Gladys Knight _ Gladys Knight & the Pips/Greatest Hits [Curb_Capitol]:
I'm running a clean install of OS X Yosemite, version 10.10.2

Last login: Tue Apr 21 21:23:51 on ttys000
Bobs-iMac:~ bobs$ cd music
Bobs-iMac:music bobs$ ls
iTunes
Bobs-iMac:music bobs$ cd iTunes
Bobs-iMac:iTunes bobs$ ls
Album Artwork            iTunes Media
iTunes Library Extras.itdb    iTunes Music Library.xml
iTunes Library Genius.itdb    sentinel
iTunes Library.itl
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Hi there
I saved eventually a few pages documents in the users/application support/iworks/templates/my templates folder. Now pages displays all these documents among the real templates. Of course I´d like to delete them. But Finder doesn´t display or even find them! Not even if I try to look up in all my data. Any suggestions? I´ve tried to delete and rebuild the folder, the situation is the same: the phantom templates remaining there...
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Just got into the folder and delete them. The Finder doesn't search in the Library by default, but can be made to.
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