From: John Beckett 

One small piece of info: NTFS allows a program to monitor changes to a file
or folder. Explorer probably uses this to automatically refresh when things
change on an NTFS partition.

However, I have occasionally noticed Explorer not refreshing on NTFS
partitions when external processes make changes (W2000 SP3).

John

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news::
> Anyone here done any heavy duty manual pruning and moving of files on Win2k
> Pro **under FAT**?  When there are hundreds of files in each subdir, I'm
> having refresh problems in Windows Explorer - as in no refresh.  I keep
> hitting F5, and changes in the right window still fail to show up in the
left.
> A chkdsk finds nothing.  A reboot always fixes it.  Haven't tried logoff/on.
>
> It's not happening on NTFS volumes.  The affected volumes are 15-20G, half
> full on the average, 40k files, directory depth <4.  It seems to happen most
> often with LFNs 30-60 chars long.
>
> --
>
> -frh
>

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