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The larger point is that most Mac users wouldn't know to do this, I think.

• wlesieutre 11y ago
  Right. I fixed it by relaunching, but I shouldn't have had to. And the even larger point is that that Apple's software updater shouldn't need a Reload function any more than Windows Explorer should need me to mash F5 after I save a new file. It's crappy design through and through. But it's 2015, so everything is a web view. Because reasons. If Apple rewrote Finder to display folder contents as a web view so that they could reuse a frontend between icloud.com and local file management, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. Working in the Finder? iCloud Drive is a web view! Heck, let's use that to display the local filesystem too! Back it with a server on localhost that examines directory contents and generates a webpage to pass to the Finder! Code reuse! Efficient development! Future benefits from optimizations to webkit that will still be slower than the native software it replaced! Even better, you can do away with all that WebDAV and SMB crap! When you want to browse files on another Mac, its filesystem webserver can generate the folder listings and serve them over HTTP with file downloads over WebRTC when you open something! It's the future! HFS2, all read/write actions to be handled with AJAX passing JSON objects back and forth. Coming soon in OS 10.13, you saw it here first. I might be slightly annoyed at the recent direction of "everything is webpages" software development. Ah well.