Can't find contents of duplicated folder

Yesterday I moved a folder, that contained a bunch of other that was in my old secretary's "Drop Box" into my new secretary's account on the same computer. I then realized that my old secretary, who is still working part-time, probably wants some of that back in her folder so I duplicated the whole folder and moved the copy back to her account. So far so good.
Today we went to get a document out of one of the folders but nothing was there. Other folders their documents in them but some did not. The ones that showed nothing had a little down-arrow on the lower right corner of the folder icon which I think signifies a drop folder. We went back to the other account, looked up same folder and had same result-nothing shows. I've tried changing the permissions on the folder but that does not seem to help. I'm pretty sure the data is still there. We just can't see it.
Does anybody know how to open this up?

I suspect it is still a permissions problem: a drop box has Access of "Write Only" for the group and all others, except the actual owner of the folder. When you changed the permissions, did you try changing the access on Group and Others to Read and Write? Afraid I don't use the drop boxes very much, but I did just try a little experiment: copied a folder from my account into the Drop Box of my test account, and I got a little warning that I would not be able to see the results of this, said OK. I then used a sudo command in Terminal and could indeed get a list of all the files in the test account's new folder. My test account is named "revelator" and the folder I copied to the Drop Box was named "links"--this is what the Terminal list command looked like:
Tigin:~ francine$ sudo ls -al /Users/revelator/Public/Drop\ Box/links
I hit Return, entered my admin password, and got a list of all the files and sub-folders in the "links" folder.
I then logged into the revelator account, the folder was in the Drop Box, I could access it and its sub-folders, but, of course, everything was Read Only because the owner of the folder and its files is still me.
You can use Terminal to keep burrowing down to see if the files are still there. Thus, there is a sub-folder in the links folder called "html" and to see its contents using the Terminal list command, it would look like this:
Tigin:~ francine$ sudo ls -al /Users/revelator/Public/Drop\ Box/links/html
If all the files are intact I would think tinkering some more with the permissions on the sub-folders that are showing as drop boxes should fix things.
Francine
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