Coverflow bug in finder

This is not a system outage/event which generates diagnostics but genuine issues with OS X found in normal use.
Finder in OS X Mavericks is not updating the coverflow image when a file is moved to Trash. Moving through the filelist changes the image shown in Coverflow but it is the wrong image for the newly selected file. Hence, in doing any further deletions it can be easy to move the wrong files to Trash and end up deleting files which the user wishes to keep ! Difficult to demonstrate in a text message but easily reproducible.

Thanks Pete:
Some time ago I realized that the disussion boards were not read by apple engineers, they are meant I think as some of form of user interaction.
So yesterday I also tried to report the bug, there is a page called apple bug reporter in which you can submit a bug report directly to engineering (you can google "Apple bug reporter" and sign in), in a matter of hours I got a reply that the bug was closed because it was duplicated, which I hope means were not alone and someone is working on it.
In the meantime I have found that refreshing the cover flow by switching views after any move or delete seems to get it right again at least until the next move/delete.
You might want to try out the bug reporter, it is clear that someone at apple does read those, hopefully someone will correct it soon. It's dissapointing not to be able to trust your computer.
I totally agree on the camera RAW, and on the driving me nuts bit.
Best
EZ

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