Can't see files on external hdd

Hi all I am a noob to MAC so here goes.
I am running ML OS 10.8.4 Server. I was MOVING music from my internal hdd to my external hdd and the battery died in the middle of the move.  I am able to see the files that were moved on my windows machine but the folder is grayed out on my mac. It can read that data is in the folder but wont allow me to open it.  The good news is even though I did a move the files are stil on my internal hdd. I could easily delete the folder and re do it again but I am talking over 400gig of music so far and it was taking hours to move.
Why can't I access the folder and its there but I can access it via windows,  Any suggestion.
Thanks
QS

Oh boy. Excuse me for my mistake. Yes I am in the wrong place. I have my 250Gig Westernal digital hard drive connected to my macbook pro.
Yeah it's weird. But as I said, Fileziller seems to see it and I have a test site running on one host's server that is fine. When I went FTP the files (they are drupal). Everything comes over except my one folder where all my images are.
So do you want me to post this in the leopard forum?

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