Refresh Finder windows via AppleScript

May 31, '05 10:15:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

For a long time, I was very annoyed with the lack of a Refresh command in Finder windows, until I found out that I could force any Finder window to refresh just by creating a new folder and then deleting it. So I wrote the following simple script to automate it:

tell application "Finder"
  delete (make new folder at (front window))
end tell
I've added the script to the Finder toolbar, so that refreshing any Finder window takes just one click.

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