sublime text 3 sidebar autoupdating not working

Question

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make it so that sublime text 3 automatically updates the sidebar when i add a new folder/file to the current project in finder (osx).

Right now, I have to manually go to Project -> Refresh Folders

My user preferences are probably not the issue as they are very basic:

{
    "color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Solarized (Light).tmTheme",
    "font_size": 18,
    "tab_size": 2,
    "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true
}

If anyone could help that would be great as I have tried googling, searching for an answer to this but havent found anything that works.

Thanks in advance.

Solution 1

I recently began experiencing this issue and it turned out to be DropBox related. Once I removed DropBox and restarted my machine the folder refreshing began working as before. Also, DropBox was affecting several other apps, specifically SourceTree and Transmit as well as Sublime Text 3.

Solution 2

I had this same issue. You could always bind the folder refresh to a hotkey. While this is not a complete fix for auto-updating, it still saves you from a more lengthy manual refresh. I believe this is how Dreamweaver works as well.

Solution 3

I had the same issue with ST3 (OSX 10.9.2). It was something wrong with the root folder of my projects. I created new folder Code1, moved all of my projects there, removed old Code folder and renamed new Code1 to Code. This bit of magic returned things back to normal.

Solution 4

Open the console and see if there are any errors. It logs when there are changes to the filesystem.

Solution 5

I've had this problem when I used disks that where mounted with samba. My best guess is that this has something to do with the OS or filesystem not triggering the correct events for sublime to realize that there's new stuff in the folders.

I'm guessing that the disk on which the project you're working on belongs to a mounted disk, that might have a different filesystem. Try moving the project and see if that helps. If that is the case maybe you ought to see over which flags and stuff you're using when mounting the disk on which the project was originally stored.

How you would go about fixing that however I have no clue about since I don't have any experience with OSX.

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Comments

[Thor]

I can definitely confirm this; with Dropbox on, I can't even expand folders in a project.

[Drew]

What? what does dropbox has to do with anything?

[hereswhatidid]

Dropbox causes a huge amount directory hits which eventually causes Finder to tweak out with these other apps.

[A5308Y]

I have the same problem and tried Synced Side Bar, but I didn't have any luck with this.

[Kamafeather]

I am not sure if it is a matter of events not triggered, since to me it doesn't update much faster even when I explicitly hit "Refresh". But I totally agree it is related to Samba; to me happens just with remotely mounted filesystems.

[Jesse Aldridge]

Five years later this problem still exists. Had this convo with Dropbox support and they blamed Sublime Text: gist.github.com/JesseAldridge/133dd7e72a1af9de0b69d8dfb2b147‌​cf

[Taylor D. Edmiston]

For me the errors shown were like this FSEventStreamStart failed on path foo (FSEventStreamCreate returned 0x7f91ad9d8100) for each folder in my project.