Files in folder on desktop are invisible

Every time I move a folder from one macbook to another macbooks desktop the files in the folder becomes invisible! I have a wireless network via airport extreme. I connect to server ›my other macbook‹ and drop the folder on my other macbooks desktop. If I ›browse‹ over to my other macbook I can see the folder fine with all its content, but when I am physically on my other macbook the folder is empty! Opening that folder in application ›whatsize‹ I see the files. So what is going on here?
A bit of trial and error shows that it is only happening when I place the folder on my other macbooks desktop. If I place the folder in another location on my other macbook everything is working just fine. Sometimes ›one out of five maybe‹ when moving a folder of files from one macbook to my other macbook a few files will be visible while the others remain invisible to the Finder.
I have gone around the problem by zipping the folder first and then unzipping it on my other macbooks desktop, this way all files are visible in the folder on my other macbook.
Not an end of the world problem but I would like to learn how to fix this problem.
Thanks,
Fridge

There has been a problem with Finder properly updating the contents of folders, especially those on the Desktop, pretty much forever in Tiger. The first time I saw it was when Tiger was new and people would unzip a folder on the Desktop, open the folder and see....nothing. The files were actually all there and could be viewed perfectly well from Terminal, for instance, but Finder didn't show them. As I recall, people took to creating a new folder or dragging an existing file inside the "blank" folder and the contents would magically appear. Sometimes you can force the Finder to update by relaunching it. Or, as you discovered, don't send things to the Desktop.
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