Networking bug in finder

I use multiple wireless networks all of which have multiple shared computers. However sometimes shared section on the left hand side of the finder window seems to 'freeze' and will display shared computers from a different wireless network and never updates. However if I open a save dialog the shared computers appear correctly in that dialogue, but still remain frozen in standard finder windows. Restarting fixes the issue, but I restart once in a blue moon so it's a little annoying.
Any ideas?

Hi
have you tried to create some different locations / positions in Network preference panel?

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I tried deleting all of those folders. Now my Network is empty, at least according to the OS X point of view.
On the flip side, I know Samba is working because I can browse the Mac from all my PC's.
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username/password - I inherited this machine so yes, I am pretty sure I might have done that. Would it be easier to create another user and that way the preferences would be "fresh"?
Hey, great idea for a test!
I saw in that other Network folder problem thread about deleting a file called com.apple.systempreferences (or something very similar). Would that help?
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If User settings aren't the problem... doesn't look like it to me so far, then an Archive and Install from your Install CD/DVD might be the trick.
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Can you count the beeps or flashes?
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Since migration to Mavricks 10.9.2 from 10.7.5 i have two bugs in finder
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The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
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Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
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I'm on a Windows network at my office. Before upgrading to Mavericks, I was able to see the Network in the finder sidebar, along with nodes (users) on the network. That functionality is gone, as is my ability to mount network drives from within applications. Any suggestions on how to regain the Network in the Finder sidebar?

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I repaired permission, ran cocktail etc...
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http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/invisible.html
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i upgraded to Mountain Lion OS X. In previous versions i had no problems, with attaching my network-drives to the Finder-Farvorites. I started the OSX with automatically mounting network-drives, everything worked fine. But now, i am not able to add them permanently to the Finder.
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Annoying bug in finder....how is possible that this thing was not noticed?

I can understand that is not possible to see all the bugs, but this is kinda bothering me, because is not exactly a bug that require a lot of efforts at all....here we go, maybe you know about it so iw ould love to know when it will be fixed.
format an USB disk as "apple partition map" (not GUID or boot), now copy a lot of stuff on it (20-30-50 Gb, doesn't matter once that you have more than 5 Gb and you are dealing with a lot of files or packages, and you will see that everything goes fine.
Now copy FROM the USB drive to anywhere else... now start to cry, because you will see messages from finder, saying that an error has occurred and the file is unreadable (-36); then the bar of the copy window stay stuck on the screen and you need to restart finder to make it work again.
a workaround is to copy small quantity of data...but if you deal, like me, with big data moving and stuff like that you wikll understand that is not possible to loose hours to copy stuff one by one, instead of select the entire folder and wait that it will copy.
It works from USB to USB (apple partition map), same from computer to USB (apm) but not on the other direction, so can't be the drive, and i've tried with another USB drive formatted with GUID and it works fine in both directions, while when you format it in APM it won't work form USB to computer (or any other device).
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I have a picture to show the issue; but i don't see anything here that let me attach pictures (btw the thing is so evident that you don't need one)
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Thanks Ashka and Larry.
I will send a message to the link that you have pointed out; hoping that somebody will see it and fix the issue.
I was expecting that an Apple representative would be on teh forum monitoring the things and checking what happens here....but seems that is not the case
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Forgive me if this is totally obvious.
Should I be able to click on Network in Finder and see networked PCs on my LAN? I can share and transfer files from a laptop to this iMac, but I don't have the laptop with me right now. I'm trying to see a different desktop PC right now. Under Network, then Servers, I only see iMac.local.
I don't know if this is a problem or if it's just how things work...
Message was edited by: FeatherM

Hi,
Yes you should see them if they are Sharing and on the same Subnet.
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smb://10.0.1.5
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http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/communication/ethernet/office/winxp/2882/

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