Free Mac software — Force Folders to Expose Themselves

At the end of each of my posts for free icons is a link about how to fix a folder that’s apparently missing its contents — of course, nothing is actually missing, but the folder is being lazy. This is not an isolated problem, but one which seems to be effecting Mac OS X folders in general … the contents of folders are not always updated as quickly as they should be.

As a test, I downloaded the same folder six times, all within a few minutes. Once the folder appeared empty, and five times it showed some or most of the actual contents, but never all the contents. The quick fix I describe in my link is fairly easy, but there’s even an easier way.

It’s called “Nudge” — a free contextual menu by Rainer Brockerhoff, distributed with permission. Once installed, right-click (or option left-click) then drag to the “nudge” option on a folder, document, hard drive, etc., and it will simply be forced to update. I use it everyday. If you’ve ever saved a file to a folder, and then couldn’t find it in that folder, only to have it appear there later, you’ll begin to understand the usefulness of Nudge.

http://brockerhoff.net/nudge

Current Version: 1.2 for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (not compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6x)

Version 1.01 is still available for 10.3 and earlier