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Regression: refreshing almost never happens automatically when downloading files with Google Chrome

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Description

### What Happened?

This issue is back in v7.1.0. I mostly experience it with files downloaded using Google Chrome. The file shown below with the green arrow icon is a temp file associated to a PDF I downloaded with Chrome:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/42d98486-b0d4-4087-8653-282098047c05)

It has been sitting there for 10 minutes and it will not go away until I manually refresh Files

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Download a PDF with Chrome (although it randomly happnes in other scenarios too)

### Expected Behavior

Files should refresh almost instantly

### OS Version

8.x (Circe)

### Session Type

Classic Session (X11, This is the default)

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

```shell

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### Hardware Info

_No response_

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