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After XY has been running for a while (hours), I notice that it does not always Auto update changes in the Tree or List.

I have Auto update ticked - so is there something else I should be doing/have done?

Happy New Year all.

Are you talking about Configuration | General | Refresh, Icons, History | Auto-Refresh | Auto-refresh?

Yes.

Okay, "not always" is extremely vague. Any plans to reveal some details?

Rest assured I would if there was much more to say but . .....

The auto refresh seems not to work when XY has been loaded and running for a few hours. If I do F5 it works again but then stops working again after a few more hours unless I do F5 again and so on. If I reboot auto refresh works for a few hours without F5 but then I need to do F5 to refresh. In the past the auto refresh (without doing F5) SEEMED to work for longer but not sure for how much longer since I have not done timings on it.

I have not made any major changes to my machine but of course regular Windows updates etc. Hope that is more useful.

I don't think auto refresh weakens over time. Not in my experience.

Maybe check your "Various Information" for clues... In Help menu, Ctrl+Click on "Various Information."

Another thing to try... Save a backup of all your settings/customizations, then make a default/out-of-the-box version of XY and run that for a few hours. See if the problem occurs.

kunkel321 wrote: ↑02 Jan 2026 17:47 Save a backup of all your settings/customizations, then make a default/out-of-the-box version of XY and run that for a few hours. See if the problem occurs.

No need to do any of that. Just type ::fresh in the address bar and hit enter. A default instance of XY will open leaving the already opened one untouched.

admin wrote: ↑02 Jan 2026 15:53 I don't think auto refresh weakens over time. Not in my experience.

Further experiments here suggest that it does. Restart XY and no problem, but after hours of being loaded, the auto refresh doesn't.

Hardly much of an issue, but seems to be there nonetheless.

If that's the case, then it's a Windows bug. With Auto-Refresh, XYplorer simply acts on notifications from Windows.

That would make sense at least.