Document folder playing hide & seek

I am a new leopard user and found a weird problem on my Powermac g5...
1) the document folder on my quick launch bar is there and works
2) the document folder as it appears in stacks is there and works
3) I goto user\myname\ and the document folder is not there, not accessible
4) I check the paths for the documents folder through spotlight, quicklaunch etc and they all say it is in \user\myname\
This has not happened on my intel MBPro

Not sure, but it is possible that the Documents folder got its invisible bit set. Take a look at my article on the problem (which usually afflicts drives, but has been known to disappear folders as well):
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/invisible.html
To see if the info applies to you (you'll see the "gray" effect on the icon if it does) go to the Finder's Go menu, select the "Go to Folder..." option and type /users/yourname/Documents, and then select Column view when the window opens. If the Documents folder then appears in the column, and is a pale gray, then it has indeed had the invisible bit set. Several methods are given for fixing the problem in the article.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder
PS--Be sure to use the correct slashes when you type the path. Just noticed you are using \ when describing your problem. You want the OTHER slash, / (which is at the bottom of the keyboard).
Message was edited by: Francine Schwieder

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