Dolphin File Manager not updating/refreshing when new Files are added

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OS: Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Host: MS-7887 1.0
Kernel: 5.18.10-200.fc36.x86_64
Uptime: 6 days, 18 hours, 2 mins
Packages: 3080 (rpm), 17 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 1440x2560, 1440x2560, 2560x1440
DE: Plasma 5.25.3
WM: KWin
WM Theme: Sweet-Dark
Theme: Sweet [Plasma], Adwaita [GTK2]
cons: Flatery-Black-Dark [Plasma], Flatery-Black-Dark [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel i7-4790K (8) @ 4.400GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Memory: 13260MiB / 15936MiB

I am having this issue with Dolphin file manager, whenever I download a file from my browser (firefox). The downloaded file doesn’t show up in dolphin. It seem dolphin is either not updating/refreshing when new files are added.

To make the file show up I have to close dolphine and reopen to see the file. Or I either need to manually refresh dolphin for the file to show up.

Is there a way to fix this issue, so dolphin can automagically refresh when ever a new file is added to a directory.

I did search for some answers, but they were issues related to other distros and those changes did not apply to fedora.

Any help/advice is high appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

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I experienced the same behavior, but sometimes it refreshes OK . I don’t know what is going on.

System:
  Kernel: 5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.37-27.fc36
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd1,gpt4)/boot/vmlinuz-5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64
    root=UUID=a5e3ea96-8fcd-4800-9f85-1326fe163503 ro
    resume=UUID=5fa37652-10a5-40d9-9edf-0cba69b9e3c6 rhgb quiet
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.3 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1
    dm: SDDM Distro: Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING Z490-PLUS v: Rev 1.xx
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2601
    date: 10/29/2021
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-10700F bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
    gen: core 10 built: 2020 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0xA5 (165)
    stepping: 5 microcode: 0xF0
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 8x256 KiB
    L3: 16 MiB desc: 1x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 high: 801 min/max: 800/4800 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 801 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
    5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800
    14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 bogomips: 92796
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Same here after 6 months you reported it. Not only when downloading a new file, but also when uncompress/extract tar.gz files or just copy files, Dolphin is not showing them.

My system is up to date:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 37
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.102.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.7-200.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 24 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900KF
Memory: 31.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: ASUS

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Me too. Same problem. Dolphin does not show a file after i change the name of that file. Nor when a download occurs.

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Survey says: Nerr!

I updated to the latest bits about 15 minutes ago:

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We’ve been on Plasma 5.27 for about 4 days.

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I just opened Dolphin to a temp directory and then created a file in that directory in konsole. The new file appeared in the Dolphin display. I renamed the file in Dolphin and the change was reflected. I changed the name in konsole and it was also reflected in Dolphin.

Not saying your observations are not correct, just that it’s not a universal issue.