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Originally Posted by icallaci
True, although sometimes in Win8.1 if File Explorer is open when I save, the FE window doesn't update. If I press F5 while in File Explorer, it updates.
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Windows 8.1 is not alone in this, the refreshing of the File Explorer (Windows Explorer on earlier Windows versions) sometimes not happening after a change unless the window is manually refreshed has been around for many years (can't recall for XP but certainly for Vista, 7 and now 8). {EDIT: I wonder if it was this that theducks was alluding to?}
Given that, my comment in my earlier post was aimed at File Explorer updates being no different after a save from Editor than they are from any other application i.e. the save behaviour of Editor in Windows 8 is normal.
The refresh is not something that worries me so I have not tested or taken much notice of this, but I think that if left long enough the window may refresh itself (always? or sometimes?). That leads me to think that the quirk or "feature" is perhaps related to something in the Windows handling of its write caching buffer and File (Windows) Explorer.