Moved to using KDE recently and it’s everything I’ve ever wanted in aesthetics and customization. Unfortunately, dolphin doesn’t refresh when files are moved around and while I tried to accept it, I just can’t. Showing me where files are is literally the only job of a file manager.
Are there any other file managers that can take all the themes and colors in KDE? I love having a full theme but I can’t stand this manual refresh thing.
It updates for me. For example (and I just tested this), if some other process copies a file into the directory I have open in dolphin, I see the file appear pretty instantly.
That’s great, what do I have to do to make mine do that?
It works on mine out of the box so it’s probably related to something further down the stack. I probably can’t help but what distro?
Does this happen when browsing local files or just network shares (SMB or Vs ssh) ?
Press F5 to refresh.
My dolphin takes ~0.5 seconds, I don’t really see any problem, but, if you want try something PCMan file manager updated instantly, I just don’t like the icons but it’s up for you.
If it helps I’m running Kubuntu 26.04 LTS
PS: “Files” by “The Gnome Project” has better icons and UX and updates instantly-
Are you using btrfs by any chance? I think copy-on-write can sometimes cause delays in Dolphin. Mine doesn’t always update the free disk space right away when I delete a file, for example.
Might be this bug. You can add more information to it and possibly help the devs fix it. There’s another one that seems to be the issue, but presenting differently.
I have the same issue on all four machines that use Dolphin. I’ve accepted having to hit F5 to refresh and I’m not looking to switch file managers, but if there is a fix I’d love to implement it!
Try Krusader for a different KDE file manager. I quite like how it looks but don’t use it regularly.
Is it only happening with folders that are or have symlinks?
I’m not sure how to tell? It happens with any media I move, either on my computer or through sftp.
Which version of KDE/dolphin are you using?
I like thunar with Arc theme but it’s Gtk based, and you really need to install thunar and its plugins (volman, archive manager, etc)
