Files not seen in Finder but available from application

This is a really bizarre problem that I can't quite make sense. I was using a program called 'Transmit' and noticed that a folder I have on my external hard drive suddenly disappeared. The folder was no longer visible in Finder. However, when I open the application it was created with (Logic Express) and attempt to open files from this 'missing' folder, it opens them without a problem. However, this folder continue to remain hidden from Finder. What is even stranger, is that when I use 'Whatsize' to scan my external drive, I still see the folder!!!
Help!

There are two things that can make files and directories invisible to finder on a HFS volume, and that's the unix way, when a filename starts with a period "." and the mac legacy way with the invisible bit (a bit that can be switched for each entry in HFS).
I would suspect it is the unix way as the files came from a NTFS partition which cannot hold invisible bits. For the unix way you just have to rename the offending files and or directories to remove the dot (from the cli you would use mv) for example:
mv ~/Desktop/.Copied_Directory ~/Desktop/Copied_Directory
For the invisible bit there is no default method built in... Apple have a cli tool called SetFile but you need to install the developer kit to get it. Alternatively there are various 3rd party apps that allow you to change the invisible bit. but i would find it very odd if this was the case... coming from NTFS.
Another easier way that lets to look at all files in the finder regardless of their invisibility is this:
Paste in terminal to show invisibles:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
Paste in terminal to hide invisibles:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder
If you still cannot see the files in finder... and you cannot copy the files via the terminal then i suspect the NTFS volume is corrupt... however that might just be the file-system not the files. Next stage would be to use recovery software to see if you can recover the data.

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