General "Downloading To Desktop" Problem On MacOS 4.10

Hello Everyone
I got this really annoying problem with my macintosh right now.
Whenever I want to download a file to my mac (to my desktop specifically), whether from Safari or Firefox. The completed file actually doesn't appear on the desktop!!!, it appears invisible with obvious spaces in the desktop that it occupys. Though you can open the fire through Spotlight etc..
I can only see these files in the desktop when I restart it, obviously that is annoying. This never happened to me before until recently.
Can somebody help me
Thanks
Dennis

Try this. Download a file and, when it finishes downloading, OPTION-click the Finder's Dock icon (far left-hand one if displaying on bottom), and select Relaunch. Does the downloaded file appear? If so, then your experiencing the Finder's known inability to update immediately. I suggest that you add a Download folder to your Documents folder, make an alias of it, put it on the Desktop, and select that as your download location in Safari. I don't have FireFox, so you'll have to do whatever is necessary to change it there. Saving downloads to the Desktop is bad practice.

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