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[Burger]

I'm currently suffering from a horrible bug in OSX which I hope you all can help me with.

Lets say I do a layout for a client in Illustrator or Photoshop. Quickly save a PDF/Jpeg to the desktop (so I can quickly find it and delete it after I'm done). So now I have created a PDF on my desktop, but I haven't actually clicked on the desktop (yet). Now I goto Mail (which is already open), and create a new email, I click attachments, goto the desktop, but my PDF isn't there.

Hmm. Click on the desktop, and the icon of my PDF suddenly appears. Ok, cool. Go back to mail, click attachments, hmm, no PDF. Now, if I drag the PDF from the desktop into the attachments window, it does nothing, EXCEPT it makes the PDF appear in the attachments window (as if Mail just had another look at the desktop).

Is there any way to make Mail check a location properly for files ?? It looks like it's just guessing what is there based on old information. And it's FUCKING ME OFF. Yes, I know I can just drag documents into the mail window, but I want the attachments window to actually work.

Can anyone help at all ?

 

[Phoenix]

I'm going to take a guess that you are on 10.3.x because I used to get something similar with files that I would download - used to be worse before 10.3. After I downloaded them, they would sometimes still not be there. I ran across some hint on macosxhints.com that helped me find the problem, what had to do with caching in the filesystem and lazy loading of the desktop. There was some way to turn it off, but I don't remember how.

Haven't run into it in 10.4.x

 

[Burger]

Thanks, I'll look into it.