Deleted file always visible in Finder preview

If I delete a file, the Finder preview still consider the file existing.

Change the Finder view mode; for example, from icon view to list view, or vice versa.

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Why do deleted files still appear in Finder

Even after i move the files to Trash and empty the trash, the files still appear in finder. If I click on them I get some message indicating they aren't there or can't be found, but how do i get deleted files not to appear in finder. If I deleted them to clean up my docs, i don't want them anymore. It gets harder to clean up files when i keep seeing the files i already cleaned out and put to trash.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You can only delete those files which you create yourself. If these are system files you are trying to trash, you'll need special permissions to delete them. Be careful though, if you trash the wrong files, you'll leave your system nonfunctional.
My software Force Empty Trash, or the competitor, Mac OS X Cocktail both can trash files created on the boot hard drive and override the permissions that may lock those files from deletion. Cocktail can trash more than my software can. But I would only use it for trashing stuff, and not cache cleanup, nor any other tool, without consulting a Mac expert. Cache cleanup of system cache can be very dangerous, and cause applications not to be able to launch anymore, including system applications. The link to my software*:
http://www.macmaps.com/software.html
I also have reference there to where you can get Cocktail.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Files not visible in Finder after Yosemite install

I have installed Yosemite. I now cannot see any of my files including applications, in Finder. I also cannot get Dropbox to start.
I run a macbook pro 15" late 2011. Used for work so need to get this fixed pretty quick.
Anyone got any suggestions?

Hi Paul...You probably have to reinstall Flip4Mac. It is the Quicktime plugin that handles wmv content.

Video files not visible in Finder

I have just finished transferring all my files to a new iMac with Mavericks 10.9.1. I have been editing video for years with various editing suites, on an Intel Mac. OS 10.6
On my new iMac the only files shown in Finder are just the packages "AVCHD" which are not usable by Adobe or Final Cut X. They need the *.mts files which are contained in that package.
I appreciate that I can see the *.mts files by using the command "show package contents", but this does not last, and when another folder is opened the problem is just the same. Surely there mus be something I am missing? There must be some way of permanently displaying the *.mts files so that the video editing prog. can find them?
A search in Finder for all *.mts files displays them openly, bu when you look at the hierarchy they do not exist. Weird.
And don't get me started on the hidden Library files, which are also essential. I have sorted that out!

You can move Projects and Events to and external drive, but you must move them from within iMovie. If you move them using the Finder, it will make the projects unusable.
I would recommend that you move all projects and events back to your original drive.
Then open iMovie and verify that all is well.
Now, click View/Events by Disk, and you should see your new drive in the Events List on the left.
To move an event, hold the command key while dragging the icon for the event to the icon for the disk in the iMovie Event List.
To move a project, hold down the command key while dragging the Project icon to the icon for the new drive in the Project List.
Doing it this way will preserve the links between your Projects and your Events.

File not visible in Finder until spotlight search

Wierd.
I have been working on a Photoshop project all week. The project uses several jpg files and I have saved the psd's in the same folder. Toady when starting up PS, none of the psd files were in the folder - everything else for the project was. Baffeled and panicked, I did a spotlight search and found them.
Here's the wierd part. The psd files are in the folder they belong in! But I can't see them in the folder. PS also cannot "see" them if I try to open from within PS.
I can open the psd files direct after finding them with Spotlight. ***.

Change the Finder view mode; for example, from icon view to list view, or vice versa.

Deleting files via Finder menu--all I see is Secure Delete

What happened to the plain old "Delete Files" option in the finder menu? I just loaded Tiger, and all I see is the "Secure Delete" option. While I find it a useful tool, sometimes it just takes too long if I am deleting large files.
Any thoughts?

Perhaps you should consider reinstalling Tiger. I just checked my wife's computer (10.3.9 installed) and it, too, has both menuitems.

Deleted files still have preview in cover flow in finder window

After I delete files while in cover flow view mode in finder, the preview and filename do not match. In fact the preview of the deleted file remains when a different file is selected. Every file below that shows a different preview. It resets to normal if I close and reopen the folder.
edit: Upon further investigation I see I am not alone. Someone else even posted a link to report the bug, which I did.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Message was edited by: Ravenkeeper

Support call gave the solution: instead of 'Arrange by', use the 'clean up by' command under the view menu in Finder. This does what arrange by used to, and while the menu options are more limited than 'arrange by', it doesn't default to the cover-flow behavior that is so irritating.
If you hate cover flow like I do, please send them feedback. If enough of us complain about it, maybe they'll stop putting it all over the place.

Deleted Temp files still visible in certain softwares.

Hi,
I want to know how to get rid of Temp files like (.dwl, .dwl2) or even come xlsx files which have already been deleted but are still visible in some softwares. For example when I do a backup using the Carbon Copy Cloner, I still get the option to choose these files for backup, which are already deleted but which otherwise don't show up in the Folders or a search in Finder.
I

If you mean visible in a list of recently opened files then yes you will always see them. Those programs store a liost of the most recently opened files and have no way to reference whether they still exist or if they have been moved, copied to some other place or even deleted. It only knows what That Program Opened.
As to CCC those deleted files may still be in your Trash can and it is asking you if you want to back them up. Also it may be that they exist in the last backup and since they aren't still on the drive and wouldn't be included in the new backup CCC is asking if you want to care them over from the old backup or just delete them.

File is visible in content server even after deletion

Hi
After a file has been deleted, it is still showing on the Search Results page. Although when I click on the Info button or the file Id, it shows the following error
Error 404--Not Found
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.5 404 Not Found
The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.
If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.
How to ensure that the deleted file is also removed from the search results page?
Regards
Pradeep

When I do a collection rebuild, the following error occurs:
Indexing aborted at 8/4/13 10:50am. Aborting index build. Too many errors with finding and copying files to the appropriate place.
Due to failure of indexing, files are visible even after archiving. Please help.

Error when deleting file: Could not find this item. This is no longer located in ...

We are setting up a new Windows 2012 server. Users access this server using a 'terminal services'. We have mapped some folders from a legacy server (different domain). Using group policy preferences, we map this folder as a drive for a user.
When user wants to delete some files, he get's the error: 'Could not find this item ..' The error is displayed to the user and it looks like the file can't be deleted. But when I press the F5 (refresh) button, the file is gone. My problem is very similar
to a problem in the following post: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/042e747a-0e25-4190-b0a2-82f3e9635eb0/can-not-delete-file-error-is-could-not-find-this-item?forum=w7itprogeneral
When I create 'txt' (or 'pdf', 'zip') file, i can delete it without the error. When I create 'xlsx', 'docx', 'pptx', 'bmp', 'jpg', I get the error.
Does somebody have an idea, how can I fix the cause of this problem? (I can't tell to users to hit the F5 button everytime when they face this issue)
Thank you for your help in advance!
Juraj

Hi,
Please check if the problematic files’ filename ended with a dot. If so, you could refer to the article below to troubleshoot the issue:
Solved: “Cannot read from the source file or disk”
http://blog.dotsmart.net/2008/06/12/solved-cannot-read-from-the-source-file-or-disk/
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Where can I find the Start up disk and how can I delete file from it.

where can I find the Start up disk on theMac Book Air?
How can I delete files from it?

The startup disk is the internal SSD in your MBA. You may delete files by draging the file to Trash (or clicking on them and then execute COMMAND+Delete). Then empty Trash.
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Can not delete file. Error is "Could not find this item".

I get the following error when trying to delete a file: "Item not found". This is a Word 2007 document that would not save properly so I saved it with a different name. Now I can't delete the original file.
The body of the error states "Could not find this item. This is no longer located in... . Verify the item's location and try again.

Hi,
I'm having exact the same problem with a file with a long name, to delete, move, rename, attribute change, etc. I deleted the file, which I receive the confirmation. However, the file is still there, with zero bytes and no extension. When I try
to delet, move or change the file, I get the error "Could not find this item, This is no longer located in xxx. Verify the item's location and try again."
I tryed everything: Using DOS, there's no 8.3 name format; In safe mode; chkdsk and sfc. Nothing worked.
I also tryed the tricks in http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/27924-could-not-find-item-when-deleting-files-3.html
http://forums.techarena.in/vista-help/1038943.htm
Without success.
I took some more time and found this tool on the net "DelinvFile". It works perfectly, after trying EVERYTHING!!!.
I Have Windows 7 professional 64bits and NTFS.
Thank you very much.
Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou......... We are almost bald tearing our hair out over this issue and how to fix it. Delin File WORKS...... At the cost of about 28 bucks well worth it.............. Good onya mate............

Deleteing files on an external hard disk with finder

lately i have been having problems deleting files on external hdd with finder cos the file doesn't appear to be deleted, it deletes them into the ext. hdd
pls how do i make finder delete the files permanetely from the drive?

When you delete a file on the Mac, you drag it to the trash can. What happens if you force empty trash after dragging the file on the external hard drive to the trash?

I'm trying to export a raw image from lightroom 5.6 to Photoshop cc 2014 2.1. I right click to export menu in lightroom as I've always done to export to Photoshop. Photoshop opens, but it can't open file, window opens to find a file to open. I'd like t

I'm trying to export a raw image from lightroom 5.6 to Photoshop cc 2014 2.1. I right click to export menu in lightroom as I've always done to export to Photoshop. Photoshop opens, but it can't open file, window opens to find a file to open. I'd like this to export my lightroom images to edit in photoshop as it has always been able to do for me. What fix do you recommend?

Hi Ashley Clavette,
The Initial view setting works perfectly when the file is opened in Acrobat after setting the desired Initial View.
When you upload the file onto Wordpress, and view it on that website in the browser...it might be using a different pdf handler program which might be causing this issue ( it would be helpful, if you could provide the screenshot) , however when you download the pdf again from wordpress server...and open in Acrobat/Reader...then what exactly happens ? Does the pdf opens in the desired Initial View setting?
Rahul

Mac Finder previews for .AI files not working

[I'm using fully updated OS X 10.8.5, using Illustrator CS6 16.0.4]
In the Finder, all my .AI files show up only as a generic AI file icon. Trying to Preview the files in the Finder also only show the generic icon.
I've tracked down the QuickLook Generator locations, and found that I've got a generator named "illust.qlgenerator". But when I run in the Terminal.app this command: "qlmanage -t <ai file>" tells me this:
[WARNING] Plug-in at file://localhost/Library/QuickLook/illust.qlgenerator/ is 32bit
[ERROR] Can't load plug-in at file://localhost/Library/QuickLook/illust.qlgenerator/: The bundle “PDF” couldn’t be loaded because it doesn’t contain a version for the current architecture.
That Quick Look Generator is only 32-bit, which seems to be causing problems.
When I moved it to a different folder to disable it, then the native PDF.qlgenerator takes over, and puts the obnoxious grid behind the previews.
Problems with the OS X PDF QuickLook generator:
Obnoxious grid behind the actual content instead of resizing to maximize the thumbnail
Native .AI files saved without PDF compatibility show no preview, just "This is an AI file without PDF content"
To get the preview, saving with PDF compatibility would double the file size. Double.
And I still get the grid.
Is there a native Illustrator QuickLook Generator? I don't want to uninstall and reinstall CS6 just to find there's no difference. Does CS6 install any better previews than I'm getting? Another Mac user with the same setup shows beautiful full-color previews of the same AI sample files without requiring PDF compatibility or the obnoxious grid.
Thanks
Darryl Z

Hi Monika,
Unfortunately, I neglected to mention that because I work with very large illustrations with many layers, paths and nested symbols the PDF preview is not very fast.
I prefer not to save a complete pdf inside my AI files because it multiplies the file size which I find slows the cloud synchronisation of the very large files I work on.
A quick raster preview would be the most performant option, lazy loading any available pdf or ai render if the item was enlarged.
Thanks,
Luke

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