File Explorer doesn’t auto refresh?

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Drag a file from an Explorer window to elsewhere, the file appears where you put it but the original Explorer window still shows the file; it requires F5 to refresh and update to show the file no longer in the original location. Same with Desktop (which is another Explorer window as I understand). Drag file from Desktop, it still shows until F5 refreshes screen. I’ve experienced this for some time, perhaps as long as Windows 10 has been around although I’m not certain. Has persisted through 2-3 reinstalls on separate machines. Is this something new in Windows 10? Is there a switch I failed to enable?

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Which version of Win10 are you running?
In v2004:
Dragging a file from the Desktop to the right panel of Explorer into the Documents Folder – the file disappears from the Desktop.
Dragging the file from the Documents Folder in the right panel of Explorer to the Desktop – the file disappears from the Documents Folder.

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Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2 (OS Build 19042.685)

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Occasionally been seeing the same behavior on Windows 8.1 for a while now.
My workaround is to kill and restart explorer.exe via the task manager, which usually fixes it until the next-time it happens intermittently for no apparent reason.

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