New Files/Folders Not Showing Up

I was using Lion until I did a clean install with Mavericks recently. Since then some truly bizarre things are happening:

1) If I save a new file from within a program (Photoshop, Word, etc.) and then browse to the location in Finder, it doesn't show up. If I search for it in Spotlight it is found, and after clicking on the item from the Spotlight search it then shows up in Finder. I've tried this repeatedly and it is consistently happening.

2) If I create a new folder from within Finder, it does not show up in the Open File dialog from within programs. For instance, I unzipped a folder, and then tried to upload something from it to a webpage using Chrome / Safari, and the folder is not there to use when trying to access it from the web browser (also tried in Word, Photoshop).

This is of maddening of course - I can barely use my computer.

Things I have tried to do to fix the problem:
Re-indexed Spotlight for my entire computer (no change)
Repaired permissions and rebooted (no change)


Does anybody have any idea what could be going on?

 

Not sure we're talking about the same thing. I just saved a file, and it wasn't showing up in Finder. So I restarted Finder as you suggested, and yea, the file shows up now. But then I save another file, and again it doesn't show up.

Surely I'm not supposed to have to restart Finder every single time I save a new file? Is this related to some new "feature" of Mavericks? It is maddening. I'm about to revert back to 10.7 or 10.8 because of it.

 

Wow, I never had this problem in 10.7. It seems like the most basic thing, to be able to access a file that exists, when you want to. It's a huge problem because I almost always need the file immediately. For instance I save a PDF, and then need to upload it to a website, attach it to an email, etc. No can do without restarting Finder? I've waited 5+ minutes and it doesn't show up. And I am using an SSD.

No offense, but I can't believe this is just the way it is. If so this is one of the worst bugs ever - I've never even had this happen in Windows (gasp).

If I can't find a way to fix it (apart from restarting Finder 50 times a day), I think my next step will be installing 10.8. Do you know if 10.8 has this bug too?

 

It's hard to believe that if this were happening for everyone, that Apple wouldn't make it a top priority to fix this bug.

Which tells me there's got to be something unique happening with those who are affected by it. If anyone has further insight into how to fix this permanently I'd greatly appreciate it.