I just came across some very weird behavior on a family members Apple MacBook. For whatever reason, Finder does NOT show all files in a folder. The folder is located on an SMB share, but I’m not sure if this has anything to do with it. The machine is fully patched with all software updates available on the day of this post.
Here is a screenshot illustrating the behaviour (some text blurred intentionally to protect privacy):
As you can see, the Terminal DOES show all files (e.g. the “untitled folder”).
Until here, this seems strange, but is probably some weird setting somewhere. But it gets a lot weirder.
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