Bug? Rev app creates invisible files?

[Phil Davis]

After thinking about it some more, I agree with your conclusions. I 
think I'll ignore it for now since it isn't a show-stopper, and see if 
moving to 10.5 changes the experience.

Thanks Richard.


Richard Gaskin wrote:
> FWIW, I have seen some rare cases where new files on the Desktop 
> aren't visible in OS X, and I've found I can make them visible by 
> "tickling" the Finder by trying to create either another file or a 
> folder with the same name -- then the Finder will give me "That name 
> is already used" warning, and the previously invisible file becomes 
> visible.
>
> But I can't recall which programs I've seen this with.  Maybe it was 
> just Rev/MC, but I believe this has also happened with a couple others.
>
> It's been very rare, and I haven't been able to come up with a recipe 
> for reproducing it reliably.
>
> Whatever the cause, I believe this is a bug in the Finder rather than 
> Rev.  I could be wrong; if it was limited to just Rev maybe there's 
> something about the way they're using the API that isn't kosher.  But 
> I suspect if that were the case the problem would be more consistently 
> evident, and in my experience it's very, very rare (may three times 
> over as many years).
>

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