For years now, Mac OS X has had a bug where if you download a file like an image from the internet, and want to upload it elsewhere, there's a long delay (10-30 seconds or more) before the file shows up in your file system to select it.
This problem has been ongoing for years and Apple still hasn't fixed it. Even brand new, maxed out Macbooks have this problem. In an era where much of what people do online is rapidly downloading and reposting content across platforms, it's unacceptable Apple can let such a ghetto problem go unfixed.
I've never seen this issue in 15 years of Mac OS X/macOS use. Is this via the browser (which?) or the command line or some other tool? When I download something, it shows up in the filesystem immediately, or as near to it as to be "immediately" in human terms.
Does it not “show up” because it’s being downloaded to a temp directory and moved over when it’s done? That’s a pretty common thing.
Your comment isn’t clear enough to explain what is happening. What’s your setup (browser and everything)? You claim a bug without giving enough information about how the bug appears. Because if this bug were as widespread as you make it sound, we’d hear about it.
Safari creates an empty placeholder file and downloads the data into another file in the same directory. When it’s ready it is moved over the placeholder.
No idea what the complaint is about, perhaps there’s some scanning going on or something. I have never noticed this.
Hmm that's possible. I've had this problem on multiple Mac's now. The files are going to my Downloads folder which triggers an iCloud upload. That uploading process shouldn't prevent it from showing in my downloads folder though.
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For years now, Mac OS X has had a bug where if you download a file like an image from the internet, and want to upload it elsewhere, there's a long delay (10-30 seconds or more) before the file shows up in your file system to select it.
This problem has been ongoing for years and Apple still hasn't fixed it. Even brand new, maxed out Macbooks have this problem. In an era where much of what people do online is rapidly downloading and reposting content across platforms, it's unacceptable Apple can let such a ghetto problem go unfixed.
I've never seen this issue in 15 years of Mac OS X/macOS use. Is this via the browser (which?) or the command line or some other tool? When I download something, it shows up in the filesystem immediately, or as near to it as to be "immediately" in human terms.
Does it not “show up” because it’s being downloaded to a temp directory and moved over when it’s done? That’s a pretty common thing.
Your comment isn’t clear enough to explain what is happening. What’s your setup (browser and everything)? You claim a bug without giving enough information about how the bug appears. Because if this bug were as widespread as you make it sound, we’d hear about it.
Safari creates an empty placeholder file and downloads the data into another file in the same directory. When it’s ready it is moved over the placeholder.
No idea what the complaint is about, perhaps there’s some scanning going on or something. I have never noticed this.
Hmm that's possible. I've had this problem on multiple Mac's now. The files are going to my Downloads folder which triggers an iCloud upload. That uploading process shouldn't prevent it from showing in my downloads folder though.