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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

A bit late to the conversation, but I resolved this by turning off DropBox's Finder integration. There is a known issue with Yosemite 10.10.x https://www.dropbox.com/help/7144

Click on the dropbox icon in your tool bar, click the gear and then open preferences. Un-check Enable Finder integration. Then restart your computer.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

I had the same issue with folders and files not showing up. No matter what folders I added it wouldn't work, refreshing folders didn't work, if I restarted Sublime, I would then see the folders I added but none of it's contents. I ended up going to File -> Close Window and then File -> New Window, after that when I added folders to the new window, it started working again. Seems like it's a corruption in the project file somehow. Anyways hope this helps someone.

Mac OSX Mavericks
Sublime 3 Build 3059

Answer 4

If you're using OS X with python version higher than 2.7.1, try downgrading python to 2.7. This fixed multiple issues for me:

brew update
brew install pyenv
echo 'if which pyenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(pyenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
pyenv install 2.7
pyenv global 2.7
# now restart ST3

Answer 5

I had this problem after reinstalling Sublime Text 2 and symlinking.

A workaround I found was binding the refresh_folder_list command with cmd+s, since that's usually when we see the sidebar updating.

For this to work you'll need to install run_multiple_commands plugin.

Then you'll have to update your User Keymap telling it to refresh folder list every time you save. The syntax is fairly simple.

I also ran across Synced Side Bar after fixing the issue. I am not sure if this is a solution but sounds promising.

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

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.